[support] Was:: Very disappointed, frustrated and concerned Drupal 7 problem --Now possibly fixed

[Roger]

I believe the problem is in the way Drupal allocates memory for php, or 
vice versa -but this is only a theory.

I see that the problem has existed for years and is prevalent also in 
Wordpress.
The error message: *Fatal error*: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes 
exhausted (tried to allocate 16142054 bytes) in 
*/var/www/html/mysite/includes/database/database.inc* on line 
*2139*....Is quite curious.

It varies in file name and amount tried to allocate but remarkably the 
the error message: *Fatal error*: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes 
exhausted is identical in all cases, is it hard coded somewhere?

There is a workaround.
Right at the very end of settings.php include one line: 
ini_set('memory_limit','-1');
This overrides PHP settings for the particular Drupal install.

Maybe Drupal aficionados and coders could attend to this before Drupal 
gets to Ver 8