Title: Plugin Misreporting Total Server Memory
Last modified: January 23, 2017

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# Plugin Misreporting Total Server Memory

 *  Resolved [pcpro178](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcpro178/)
 * (@pcpro178)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/)
 * The server stats are reporting that my server has a total of 256MB memory. My
   server actually has 1GB of RAM. (I verified this with my hosting provider.) What
   might be causing this misreport, and can it be fixed?

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 *  Plugin Author [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8687474)
 * The memory that the plugin is showing you is the PHP memory, the amount of meory
   alloted to PHP not your server’s physical memory. Ask your what the PHP memory
   they have alloted for your site.
 *  Thread Starter [pcpro178](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcpro178/)
 * (@pcpro178)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8687551)
 * Hi Saumya. Thanks for the quick response. My hosting provider tells me that my
   PHP memory limit is actually set to 90MB. Sure enough, when I check PHP info,`
   memory_limit` is set to 90M. Your thoughts?
 *  Plugin Author [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8687992)
 * Try uninstalling and re installing the plugin. Technically it’s not possible.
   Because it seems in your PHP INI file the limit is set to 90MB but when PHP is
   asking you for that it is saying its 256MB.
 * Can you check your wp-config file and see if the memory limit has been hardcodedly
   defined there or not?
 *  Thread Starter [pcpro178](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcpro178/)
 * (@pcpro178)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8691833)
 * Hi Saumya. I check wp-config.php, and there’s no indication of `memory_limit`
   being set there (nor anything being set to 256). I’ve send another request to
   my hosting provider asking about the possibility of my PHP installation or php.
   ini file being run from the wrong location.
 *  Plugin Author [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8691894)
 * Yah, its possible too. You see the the PHP memory limit is not a hard coded number.
   PHP ask the server for the details and whatever value it provides, it shows that
   to you. So for some reason when PHP is asking your server about PHP memory limit,
   its saying 256MB.
 * As I don’t have access to your server/cpanel or your wp admin I have no idea 
   whats behind this. But I’ve explained you the logic behind it.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-misreporting-total-server-memory/#post-8691894)
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