Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted

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When I try to upload a photo the following message displays in the dialog:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 15044 bytes) in /home/content/88/5699688/html/administrator/components/com_phocagallery/libraries/phocagallery/image/imagemagic.php on line 214

Can someone help me? Thanks!

[Benno]

Hi,
see: 5. Allowed memory size of ... bytes exhausted ... https://www.phoca.cz/documents/50-phoca/ ... al-advices

Kind regards,
Benno

[jedivader]

This is actually a problem with the image resolution, not its byte size.

Creating thumbnails requires placing the image in the server memory, where at one point it's in the form of a bitmap. So the actual file size doesn't really matter, it's the resolution that's the limiting factor (the resulting bitmap will be the same for any given resolution, no matter the image format, compression, or byte size). The memory is limited by the php variable memory_limit. 67108864 bytes is 64M.

I tested this to confirm it:
I tried generating a thumbnail from a 128KB JPEG image with a 4000x4000px resolution - no joy - Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted error.
Then I tried generating a thumbnail from a 4.7MB JPEG image with a 3000x3000px resolution - success.

To fix this issue, one should increase the value of the memory_limit php variable on their server. This is usually possible to achieve from the cpanel. Or one could ask their hosting provider to do it for them.

[Jan]

Hi, yes, but to simplify for users who do not have technical skills, in most of cases, image (jpg, png) which has large resolution, has large size (we are speaking about images - photos, mostly high resolution = large size (of course, e.g. white gif image which is 5000x5000 can be saved in e.g. 50kb) but we are speaking about photos in image gallery.

Jan