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phpjoomlajoomla1.5windows-server-2012

Joomla 1.5 memory issue on new server

I need to move a Joomla 1.5 site from my unix machine to a Windows 2012 host on request from my customer. Both servers are running PHP 5.3.26.

On my unix server, I can see that the site is using approx 40 MB RAM. The memory_limit is 128 MB. When moving it to the Windows host, I get the following, rather famous, error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 419430400 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in E:\HostingSpaces\xxx\site.com\wwwroot\libraries\joomla\error\exception.php on line 117

On the Windows host the memory limit is set to 400M.

Does anyone have an idea on what the problem could be here?

Solution

  • This might be the cause of an extension which is not correctly built and doesn't support Windows Server. You can try going into the SQL back-end and disabling all non vital extensions to see if that fixes the problem.

    You are most probably stuck in a loop which causes a memory leak.