Re: "Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted" installing www/php4

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:09:28 +0100
Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost> wrote:

>
> > > 
> > > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to
> > > allocate 92160 bytes) in

....

> I tried to change as much as possible (with ulimit and sysctl) but the
> issue is still there :(
> 
> Which value did you thought might solve my problem (I can't have
> stacksize.* to change).
> 
> # sysctl proc.curproc.rlimit

> proc.curproc.rlimit.stacksize.soft = 8388608
> proc.curproc.rlimit.stacksize.hard = 8388608
>

Given that the error message speaks of 8388608, as does stack size, I
think I know which one needs changing...

As root, change the hard limit, then in that process or a child of it do
the compilation.