Title: Memory Exhausted?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Memory Exhausted?

 *  [MickC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickc/)
 * (@mickc)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted/)
 * I’m trying to upgrade a site that uses WP to show projects by various designers.
   When I try to run the upgrade script I get this error:
    Fatal error: Allowed 
   memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16384 bytes) in [path]/
   wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 149 The server says it’s doing just fine, processor
   and memory wise. Anyone have a clue?

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted/#post-55826)
 * That number happens to be 1024 x 1024 x 8. or 8Meg. Sounds like a PHP configuration
   issue of some sort that limits the per-script memory maximum.
    On the other hand,
   I can’t imagine what part of the upgrade script is causing that much of a memory
   hit. Unless you have some particularly large data objects in your posts/db that
   are being migrated. -d
 *  Thread Starter [MickC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickc/)
 * (@mickc)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted/#post-55831)
 * I’ll try that tomorrow. I really should have thought of that as I do know that
   the users table is way too big (we have more than 10k individual users who are
   allowed to post).
 *  Thread Starter [MickC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickc/)
 * (@mickc)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted/#post-56021)
 * Actually I have decided not to upgrade this site. The database size problem is
   trivially fixable, but now that the ability to upload images has been completely
   excised from post.php my users are telling me that Mingus is less, if not completely
   unusable for them.
    Perhaps Pictoralis will be the way to go if that gets upgraded
   to work with Mingus.

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 * Last reply from: [MickC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickc/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted/#post-56021)
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