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White screen of death caused by image module

Thu, 09/12/2010 - 11:22 — ben gilliland

Hi, my site has been suffering from (what I know) is refered to as the white screen of death.
I think that I have traced this to the Image module... when it is turned off, the site works... turn it back on and WSoD occurs every other page load.
I have updated the module to the recommended release but the WSoD still occurs when I turn it on.
Does anyone know of a solution to this? Could it be because my Drupal install is out of date?

My server guys have dug up these error messages if they mean anything to anyone (and how they might be linked to the Image module)?

[Thu Nov 25 11:38:07 2010] [error] [client 174.129.173.230] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16064 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/cosmonline.co.uk/httpdocs/includes/image.gd.inc on line 190
[Thu Nov 25 11:50:11 2010] [error] [client 174.129.173.230] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16064 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/cosmonline.co.uk/httpdocs/includes/image.gd.inc on line 190
[Thu Nov 25 12:04:05 2010] [error] [client 129.177.138.111] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16064 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/cosmonline.co.uk/httpdocs/includes/image.gd.inc on line 190


Any help is gratefully recieved!!
Thanks

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Thu, 09/12/2010 - 12:26 — gpk

The answer is there in the

The answer is there in the error message: "Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted"

Your PHP install allows 32MB which is enough for many sites but once you start manipulating images on the fly during page requests you may need much more. 64MB or 96MB would probably be recommended in your case. Speak to your web host about upping this limit - it is often possible via .htaccess or a custom php.ini file.

Sat, 11/12/2010 - 08:11 — lavjaman
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4 ways

You have four ways to incrase the memory size

  • memory_limit = 32M to your server's main php.ini file (recommended, if you have access)
  • memory_limit = 32M to a php.ini file in the Drupal root
  • ini_set('memory_limit', '32M'); in your sites/default/settings.php file
  • php_value memory_limit 32M in your .htaccess file in the Drupal root

via: http://drupal.org/node/76156

Sat, 11/12/2010 - 15:47 — ben gilliland

Thanks guys

I'll give that a crack... thanks for your help