Allowed memory size exhausted even if correct PHP MEMORY LIMIT

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Hi,
I use Nextcloud 24.0.5 on my vserver with Plesk. I set the following parameter in PHP

  • Version: 8.0.24
  • Speicherlimit: 512 MB
  • Maximale Ausführungszeit: 3600
  • Maximale Größe zum Hochladen: 20 MB

But I will get the following message

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8408552 bytes) in nc/apps/maps/lib/Helper/ExifGeoData.php on line 120

Also I can’t update with the online updater because I will get the same error.
What have I to do to avoid this problem?

Thank you for your help.
br
martin

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here you are limited to 128 MB. There are different locations where you can set the configuration, so your setting of 512 MB seems to be overwritten somewhere…

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Depending of the php model you are using, the config ini file location changes.
FPM model, ie, locates, on ubuntu, in /etc/php/[your active version]/fpm/php.ini
Check your setup, and review your settings file.

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placing the memory override in a user.ini in your root of nextclouds domain might help, particularly so with some shared host s. but check your phpinfo() at that folder/domain to find the ini in use. (empty file with < . ? . php \n phpinfo(); )

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1024MB i find is the sweetspot for me,

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Ok. The problem was caused by the cron script which is configured in plesk. I added the -dmemory_limit parameter to the cron entry. Know it works.
br
martin

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Maybe something to mention that happened to me:

Using php-fpm and allthough in its settings there was 1024M memory_limit, I suddenly once got the error from crontab every 5 minutes. Even changing this limit didnt help …

… until I remembered, that the crontab is using a different basic php.ini in my case (…/cli/php.ini) where it was by far too low (128M)

Maybe this helps one or the other since I landed here before I found my issue myself :wink:

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thanks for this. Could you provide a more detailed description how to solve this? I am still struggeling to understand what you did.

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I‘ve found the solution for me as well. In case anyone else is searching for answers, I’ll share mine here as well:

In the cron script settings ad the following arguments:

php -d memory_limit=512M