Title: Memory hogging?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Memory hogging?

 *  Resolved [Carlos Mundi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlos-mundi/)
 * (@carlos-mundi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-hogging/)
 * I am a total newbie. I consider my first attempt to install WP3 to be a failure.
   Out of the box, I have timeouts, partial page renderings and connection drops
   on a server which dishes several other (non-WP) sites with no problem.
 * I am having [this problem](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/406229) wherein
   wp-admin.php appears to be trying to hog 256MB despite the fact that php.ini 
   limits it to 64MB (and phpinfo() independently confirms this).
 * This seems like a really basic installation problem. So I imagine I did something
   very naive. Any help is appreciated. Usually a do really specialized apps. I 
   have someone who just needs a blog, so I figured WP would be the way to go. Six
   hours later… 🙂
 * Thanks,
    Carlos

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-hogging/#post-1598510)
 * WordPress 3.0 automatically attempts to increase the memory limit to 256mb if
   necessary when upgrading or installing plugins/themes. This shouldn’t be causing
   any issues, but you might want to try manually boosting PHP’s memory allocation
   via one of these methods:
 *     ```
       1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
       memory_limit = 256M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
   
       2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
       php_value memory_limit 256M
   
       3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
       Increasing memory allocated to PHP
       define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
   
       4. Talk to your host.
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Carlos Mundi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlos-mundi/)
 * (@carlos-mundi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-hogging/#post-1598618)
 * Thanks, folks. I’m using the default 2010 theme, actually release 1.1 of the 
   2010 theme. Zero customization. Zero plugins (ok, I tried band removed supercache).
   Added one comment. Just about every page access — including landing on the homepage—
   is trying to grab 256MB on my 360MB VPS. Massive disk thrash. Not cool.
 * The whole point is, I have other things I need to do, and a turnkey CMS grinding
   a system out of the box is not in the plan.
 * If you’ve read the [other thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/406229),
   you know that I’ve done and verified all the usual PHP memory_limit stuff. I’m
   quite familiar with that. And although not mentioned in the other thread, I’m
   using WP_MEMORY_LIMIT in wp-config.php and — surprise! — even when I set this
   to a lower number to match the php.ini reported by phpinfo() I find in my server
   log that WP **still** tries to grab 256MB.
 * I had to stop using Drupal because it became such a PHP hog with only a few modules
   enabled. Someone suggested that I try WP because I was told it has a smaller 
   memory footprint (at least for my simple needs), but that has not been my initial
   experience.
 * Is there perhaps a way to strip WP down to a minimal core which requires less
   peak memory? I still suspect that I have somehow malconfigured WP which is making
   it want so much memory. I’d be happy to report some metrics if I knew where to
   look. I’m open to learning that I’ve done something stupid.
 * Thanks,
    Carlos
 *  Thread Starter [Carlos Mundi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlos-mundi/)
 * (@carlos-mundi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-hogging/#post-1598630)
 * Ok, problem appears solved. Details over [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/406229).
   Short version: I did not increase my swap when I got more RAM. Silly me.
 * Thanks,
    Carlos

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 * Last reply from: [Carlos Mundi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlos-mundi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-hogging/#post-1598630)
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