Title: Fork failed – Cannot allocate memory
Last modified: November 29, 2018

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# Fork failed – Cannot allocate memory

 *  [jason6666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason6666/)
 * (@jason6666)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-failed-cannot-allocate-memory/)
 * BackUpWordPress detected issues with your last backup.
 * php: proc_open(): fork failed – Cannot allocate memory, /home/admin/web/brand-
   import.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/vendor/symfony/process/
   Process.php, 289
 * The question poped up above after the backups completed，and I could download
   the backups.
 * The issue above didn’t seem to affect the backups.
 * I want to know if my websites were successfully and completely backuped?
 * p.s. What has gone wrong?
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [jason6666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason6666/).
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).

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 *  Plugin Author [XIBO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xibodevelopment/)
 * (@xibodevelopment)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-failed-cannot-allocate-memory/#post-10989177)
 * Hi,
 * Apologies for the delay.
 * This indicates that, during the backup, the site encountered the memory limit.
 * Does the error occur each time a backup runs?
 *  Thread Starter [jason6666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason6666/)
 * (@jason6666)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-failed-cannot-allocate-memory/#post-10996290)
 * Yes,it does.

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 * Last reply from: [jason6666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason6666/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-failed-cannot-allocate-memory/#post-10996290)
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