Title: Request: low maximum memory setting warning
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Request: low maximum memory setting warning

 *  [donpdonp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donpdonp/)
 * (@donpdonp)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-low-maximum-memory-setting-warning/)
 * i just went through a couple hours of anguish because the upgrade process from
   2.2.1 to 2.3 silently failed. The upgrade.php screen gives an empty page with
   the WP logo on it. After adding lots of trace statements to includes/upgrade.
   php i narrowed the problem down to one select statement, yet there were no errors
   in the log file.
 * the problem was that PHP itself was running out of ram because the memory_limit
   = 8M
    was too low.
 * I propose that wordpress upgrade.php include a check and a warning if the limit
   is less than 16M. once i went to 16M, the upgrade script worked fine.

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 *  [luredan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luredan/)
 * (@luredan)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-low-maximum-memory-setting-warning/#post-629740)
 * I second this. However, the best would be if WordPress could do fine with 8M,
   as people with cheap webhotels (like me) aren’t allowed to set the limit above
   8M.
 * Btw. WordPress upgraded fine with my 8M limit, but I guess it depends on the 
   ammount of userdata in some way.

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 * Last reply from: [luredan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luredan/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-low-maximum-memory-setting-warning/#post-629740)
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