[development] drupal php requirement : more than 8 Mb now?

[Alaa Abd El Fattah]

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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:06:13 -0500
James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/05 7:18 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> > Hi Christophe,
> > 
> > On 13 Dec 2005, at 12:13, Christophe Chisogne wrote:
> >> I had a strange problem while importing a new po file in drupal 4.6.4/5.
> >> Finally, I found the solution [3] : memory_limit should be higher than 
> >> 8Mb.
> > 
> > instead of increasing the memory limit, I'd like to see us investigate 
> > how we can reduce the memory requirements of the locale module's parser.
> 
> while I'm all for optimizations... and Drupal's RAM usage could 
> definitely use some optimizations, the fact is RAM is fairly cheap, and 
> PHP's default 8M is a bit dated. Most larger scale projects these days 
> recommend 16M (in fact I heard rumours that the PHP team is considering 
> up'ing the default).

ram isn't cheap on a VPS hosting setup, and African standards of cheap
are very different from say western standards.

in fact I've been having a very hardtime keep a mildly popular drupal
website online due to memory usage and would greatly appreciate
reducing it.

cheers,
Alaa
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