[support] Fed up with Drupal 7 Fatal error: Desperately need help

[Jamie Holly]

Memory limits of 128mb or more is not uncommon. It's even stated in the 
online documentation:

A PHP memory limit of 32MB is the minimum requirement for Drupal 7 (16MB 
for Drupal 6), and 64MB is recommended. Some sites may need more than 
64MB if they are using certain contributed modules such as Views and 
Panels. Memory limits of 128MB and higher are not unusual. There are 
several techniques to increase the PHP memory limit and you only need to 
use one of them. The right one for you depends on your system configuration.

http://drupal.org/node/207036

Views and Panels are heavy modules. That's the price we pay for the ease 
in site building they provide. The other option is to not use them and 
go with custom code to generate your content and displays. Any site I 
build I evaluate what needs to be done and what will need to be done in 
the future before installing Views and/or Panels. Of course that's not 
an easy option for people not familiar with Drupal development.

As far as Views, it will get better in Drupal 8, since it is going into 
core and will get a lot more attention from the development side as well 
as tighter integration into Drupal overall.


Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 4/5/2013 2:26 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
> On 05/04/13 00:28, Jamie Holly wrote:
> > I've got a Drupal 7 site running with 60 contrib modules and about a
> > dozen custom modules. I got the memory limit set to 128mb and never run
> > out of memory. This is on CentOS6 and PHP 5.3.23.  There are also
> > countless other Drupal 7 sites running out there with no problem. But
> > you can pretty much break anything with the wrong configurations and/or
> > modules.
>
> In contrast, I just created a site with a few modules and themes, and
> without adding so much as any new content type or content, I did get
> memory problems
>
> I'm using CentOS 6. PHP 5.3.3 with all the latest relevant updates. It
> happened the first day drupal 7.22 was available and it appeared to be
> provoked by Jackson. Not having persuaded myself I actually want
> Jackson, it was easy to dispense with it. I do have the memory limit set
> to 128Mbytes.
>
> However, this isn't Roger's problem.
>