[support] So fed up with Drupal 7

Don donald at fane.com
Mon Feb 25 02:58:57 UTC 2013


what is your max memory limit set to in php.ini? Sometimes it's set to 
64M out of the box.
http://drupal.org/node/207036

-Don-

On 2/24/2013 9:43 PM, Roger wrote:
> Thanks
> I switched display_error on and html_error on and now have the ever
> faithful.....
> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 3759910 bytes) in /var/www/html/eal/includes/cache.inc on line 463
>
> So at least I'm back to an endemic php memory problem.
> So I know that:
>    the problem exists on 3 different OS installations,
> Is php related because all  systems have the latest update of php.
> Is virtually identical on each
> That  it occurs in the same drupal site copy installed on all 3.
> I am suspicious that it is an underlying problem with token module
> because under some circumstances token keeps on regenerating tokens,
> filling memory to the pc's physical limit, not the php limit. This can
> be witnessed in Firebug.
> The WSOD also happens when drupal doesn't correctly read some field in
> the database.
>
> To switch of token module requires several other modules to be disabled,
> thus affecting the site so it's not a good option.
>    Back to square 1 and am still puzzled.
>
> Thank you for any and all assistance
> Roger
>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> You're not seeing anything because you have display_errors set to
>> false in your php.ini.
>>
>> You can change that and restart apache, or add |
>> error_reporting(E_ALL);| ini_set('display_errors','1');
>> |seehttp://php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php
>>
>> for more.
>>
>> -Don-
>>
>> |
>>
>> On 2/24/2013 6:53 PM, Roger wrote:
>>> As the subject line says, I am getting rapidly disenchanted with Drupal
>>> 7 but there are no valid alternatives.
>>>
>>> The problem: <Administration><Structure><Content Types><Select any
>>> content type> <Edit> WSOD. No error messages, no log messages, no way to
>>> isolate what may be the problem.
>>> There is no way to enter the edit mode of any content type in my system.
>>> This started with 2 content types and now since I switched on Book
>>> module, is all of them. Switching off Book module has no effect.
>>>
>>> Problem exists with the site copy on 2 different operating systems.
>>> What puzzles me is that WSOD is only for edit selected content type,
>>> everything else seems ok.
>>> I have a basic mysql database, mayo theme fully updated drupal 7 core
>>> and 43 additional modules.
>>> Been having this problem to various extent for over a month.
>>>
>>> I suspect it may again be a php memory error but  have no way of knowing.
>>> Have ini_set() to 128M in /settings.php, have memory_limit in php.ini
>>> set to 128M and in this Fedora 16, at least do not get the dreaded php
>>> memory error mentioned in my previous emails.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to ascertain exactly what may be causing the WSOD or is
>>> it simply a function of the way php works. I notice that php reads the
>>> config files on startup but not again unless restarted. could the
>>> problem be caused by memory overload through php, I'm grasping at
>>> straws  here.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate some understanding on what's going on and how to
>>> resolve it.
>>> Many thanks
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>



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