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[Vincent, Thunder God]

I thought I should let the staff know that I ran into a problem when giving a usernote to oddler. The problem was reproducible (it occurred 5 times).

I got this error message

Originally Posted by error message

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/eyesonff/subdomain/forums/includes/class_postbit.php(300) : eval()'d code on line 216

Does this mean that the forum has run out of memory in some way?

[oddler]

Don't know, but you hit me up with a plethora of them.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Originally Posted by oddler ^

Don't know, but you hit me up with a plethora of them.

Well, in that case, it's just viewing them that's a problem. I'll delete the extra ones once I can actually access your page.

[o_O]

The error means that the script handling whatever you're trying to do (post a usernote in this case) is eating up more memory than PHP is allowed.

It's reproducible currently by attempting to view the announcements from within the Daily Grind forum which is extremely strange (viewing an announcement shouldn't eat 32MB of memory), so it's possible that some other process is pushing PHP past the limit.

It could be caused by a memory leak or just by having too low a limit on memory. Searching for short strings consumes a lot, so perhaps that was happening when the error occurred.

[theundeadhero]

Apparently this happened because VTG had set up 9999 posts per page, which was too much for the forum to handle. Maybe from so many usernotes contaning animated smilies

[o_O]

I didn't even know you could do that now.

That could definitely cause this problem. It would've been a number closer to 2400, since that's close to how many usernotes oddler has. It makes sense that it would take higher than 32MB (especially if they're image-heavy), since the server has to hold the whole lot in memory.

A 100-post page in a thread can chew up a good 5-6MB of RAM easily.

[Hsu]

Basically, if you use more than 50 posts per ANYTHING you are a shame and disgrace to this community.

[Baloki]

Why aren't we just forcing old defaults on people of 30 posts per page ???