Fatal error uploading image

[guest3817]

I am getting the following error uploading a 4415 by 3312 pixel 4.5mb jpg file as a normal member of my forum. The picture should be resized to 1024 by 768.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17664 bytes) in /home/hunter00/public_html/sisac/forum/Sources/Gallery2.php on line 5067

Should my users be able to upload and resize a picture of this size?

Thanks

[SMFHacks]

A quick fix would be to
Open Sources/Gallery2.php
Find All

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@ini_set("memory_limit","64M");
Change to

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@ini_set("memory_limit","128M");
That would double the amount of memory used to resize the image.

[guest3817]

Hi

Thanks for the quick response,

This moves where the error occurs the message is now

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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17664 bytes) in /home/hunter00/public_html/sisac/forum/Sources/Gallery2.php on line 10133
I also tried resaving the picture using photoshop as a jpeg at a quality setting of 10 which left the size and resolution the same but reduced the physical size to 2mb and got the same error.

I also tried another large image ( from the same type of canon camera) and got the same result.

The problem is that most of my users are likely to have very little knowledge about how to resize images themselves. the user that is having the problem at the moment has no image processing software at all other than Window paint.

Thanks for any help you can give with this.

[SMFHacks]

Did you replace all instances of 64mb in the file?
That line number in that error message seems high 10133 more than the lines of code in the file.

Other things you can check our the php settings on the server and what the default memory limit for scripts is.

[guest3817]

Hi

I found four instances of

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@ini_set("memory_limit","64M"); and replaced them with "128M". I just found one instance of

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@ini_set("memory_limit","48M"); on checking just now so I've increased that to 128M as well

I'd got my ISP to increase memory server wide. cPanels PHP confuguration now shows  the following.

Resource Limits    max_execution_time        120
Resource Limits    max_input_time       300
Resource Limits    memory_limit       100M

I'm still getting the this error trying to upload large jpegs.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17664 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/forum/Sources/Gallery2.php on line 10133

Do you think the memory limit is high enough.

Doug

[guest3817]

My ISP put the memory limit up to 150M but I was still getting the same error. On looking at the code again I found an occurence of @ini_set('memory_limit', '64M'); using single quotes rather than double quotes. Amending this to 128M has solved the problem. Thankyou once again for all your help.

[SMFHacks]

Glad you were able to get it working. I will probably change to 128mb for the next release. It is amazing though that php would use that much memory just to resize a 4 megabyte photo