Title: Increase wordpress memory limit on dedicated server
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Increase wordpress memory limit on dedicated server

 *  [The Three](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3wwwgr/)
 * (@3wwwgr)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/)
 * Hello there!
 * I have a dedicated server (ubuntu x64 – apache – 32GB RAM – i7)
 * Can i inscrease the memory limit to p.x 10GB? It’s better or not?
 * For the time i have set it to 2MB and the server uses only 7% of the RAM for 
   the time, but i think the website is getting slower by the time (50k+ page views
   per day)

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/#post-6876393)
 * I’m thinking the default value may actually be 128M. That applies to the maximum
   amount of memory that a php script is allowed to consume, as defined in php.ini:
 * `memory_limit = 128M`
 * Are we both referring to the same setting?
 *  Thread Starter [The Three](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3wwwgr/)
 * (@3wwwgr)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/#post-6876413)
 * Oh yes I am sorry… I was meaning 256MB… I have increased wp memory to 256…
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/#post-6876476)
 * >  I have increased wp memory to 256.
 * You aren’t increasing WP memory. You’re increasing the maximum amount of memory
   that PHP will allow any script to consume before it errors.
 * You might leave it at 256M and continue monitoring things. I think 10G sounds
   a bit excessive, and it isn’t going to increase your site performance. Could 
   you imagine having a run-away script tat just kept chewing away until it ate 
   up 10GB of memory? Yikes..
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 *  Thread Starter [The Three](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3wwwgr/)
 * (@3wwwgr)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/#post-6876499)
 * Yes I think you are right!
    So my websites “slow down” and even “down time” (
   when 500+ users are active) It’s not caused from memory limit…
 * Ok, now I have to check the server condition, or the website theme or plugins
   performance… Right?
 * Can you give me some tips for checking what is going wrong? Thanks!
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-wordpress-memory-limit-on-dedicated-server/#post-6876527)
 * There are waayyyy to many variables to try and optimize a website without any
   first hand knowledge of or access to the actual environment and server configuration.
 * You’ll find as many opinions on that topic as there are themes available for 
   WordPress. The best you can do is scour the information available and find a 
   guide that works best for your server and situation.
 * This is a great place to start for resources and information that can help. [WordPress Optimization](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization)
 * also – [https://www.google.com/#q=how+to+optimize+server+for+wordpress](https://www.google.com/#q=how+to+optimize+server+for+wordpress)

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