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.
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.