Server error or stupid wordpress bug?

ajdegans

Hi there,

I've got this server at my home:
amd3000+ 64bit
bunch of ddr ram (not sure howmuch)
40gb harddisk IDE

This computer has always worked with windows 2000 as fileserver.

Recently i reinstalled it as webserver using fedora core 4 64bit without gui.
apache 2.0.54/mysql 4.1.13/php 5.0.4
for php:
safe mode off
register globals on
magic quotes on
short open tags on
php4 compatability on
show errors on (E_ALL E_NOTICE)

for apache:
index.php as indexfile
php module is loaded
addtype lines are added
(this is proven to be correct since phpmyadmin works)

All seems to work except for wordpress. As some of you might know wordpress uses a cache memory like thing. When ever using this cache i get this (or alike) error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 1471

On the wordpress forums no-one seems to have a clue and suggested sollutions dont seem to work either. Now for myself i have almost decided to use another tool but i cannot find ONE which seems to compete with wordpress (yes im spoiled by it) so again im looking for an answer.

Can anyone tell me what this error means what its nature is and how i can solve this?

I think apache/php/mysql work because when i use phpmyadmin everything works. also when i use other scripts i have no errors doing so. so its a wordpress thing (thats what i thought) but i have a working wordpress install on another computer.

thorpe

Your php is configured to only allow 8 MB of memory per request, which somehow seems to be not enough. You could edit your php.ini and increase the value of the memory_limit variable, but this shouldn't happen in the first place, might be a bug in wordpress.

I would post this error on a wordpress help forum, its not really a php issue.

ajdegans

Thorpe;

thanks for your input
Offcoarse i thought that 8mb couldnt be enough, but ive checked on my working sever and that one uses the same setting and is works fine. Alsi if you look at the error it says its trying to allocate 24bytes. Which isnt exactly 8mb...

Theres a lot of errors like this posted on the wordpress boards but no one seems to know whats wrong.