One of the problems I am experiencing with WordPress today is an out of memory php error with WordPress 2.8 when I use Arne Brachhold’s Google XML Sitemaps plugin to rebuilt my sitemap:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 41 bytes) in /…/wp-settings.php on line 288
If I disable all my active plugins except Google XML Sitemaps, I don’t get the error when rebuilding the sitemap.
I am using Godaddy shared hosting, have added the line “memory_limit = 64M” in my php5.ini file and added the line ini_set(‘memory_limit’,’64M’); to my wp-config.php and I still get the error. I did not have this problem with WordPress 2.7.1.
I found this post by Jeff Starr, WordPress Error Fix(?): Increase PHP Memory for cache.php. Maybe his solution had to do with an Apache configuration – the post was written on February 17, 2008, so it wasn’t a WordPress 2.8 issue. Anyway I did the three things he mentioned, and things seem to be OK at the moment. I’m not going to pursue the problem anymore.
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July 16th, 2011 at 10:12 PM
Just to let other people know, the link at Arne Brachhold’s is for the beta verion, 4.0b6 Beta, of Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress. It requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP 5.1.
I’m using version 3.2.4 on this blog, with PHP 5.0.
Here’s a link to a discussion about a memory problem with Google Sitemaps Generator: http: //wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-php-memory
July 16th, 2011 at 7:00 PM
try this
i had the same problem now is fixed
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-dl-beta/
July 4th, 2009 at 3:13 AM
After reading about the advanced options in the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, specifically:
Try to increase the memory limit to: __ (e.g. “4M”, “16M”)
I changed the limit from 16M to 32M and the Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted problem went away.