Title: Memory concern
Last modified: January 27, 2017

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# Memory concern

 *  [David Borrink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidborrink/)
 * (@davidborrink)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-concern/)
 * Found your plug-in and tried it, but I got a fatal error:
 * `Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   51582823 bytes) in /home/nbd610/public_html/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-cleaner/
   classes/thumbnail-cleaner.php on line 82`
 * I saw on another thread that someone had a large amount of files to process but
   it didn’t go. I think I might have a similar amount: 47160 files (1,258.89 MB)
   after I ran the analyzer.
 * What would I need to do to allow this to work? I’d really like to take advantage
   of this, and I see it’s helped others.

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 *  Plugin Author [thaikolja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaikolja/)
 * (@thaikolja)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-concern/#post-8794587)
 * Easy answer: It’s my fault. The functions that are being used for creating a 
   backup into a .zip file run as a single process, using more and more of your 
   server’s memory. In the next version, this will be gone, I’m planning to split
   the processes so that even users with small allowed memory sizes can use it properly.
 * What you can do:
 * 1. Put `ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');` into your functions.php and see if it
   works. If not, go to step 2.
    2. Ask your server provider to open the php.ini
   of your server and increase the value for **memory_limit**.
 * That’s basically all you can do at this moment.

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