error?

[MCHarris]

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 23040 bytes) in /var/www/net-benefits.net/includes/adminfunctions.php on line 2863

[SoCalian]

I got the same thing

[skibum]

I have no idea how to fix it, but I do know that Patrick would probably like a little more data on how the error was generated. So...
What did you do / were you doing when the error was generated?

J

[stannard67]

The error message shows up after I send a post. I then refresh and it says I have tried to send an additional message too quickly. I return to the main menu of NB and my post shows up.

I have also noticed that I have posted things which haven't shown up on the "last post" items even though the posts exist and post-date previous posts. Not sure if that's related to the error message, but it started happening around the same time.

Obviously not devastating stuff--just weird.

[syphos]

NB has become sentient, disapproves of your posting.

[stannard67]

And yours as well.

[mdreher]

I saw the same thing too.

Interesting thing about this thread. My post will be #7, but the thread shows that there are only 2 replies. I wonder if there's a relationship there...

[MCHarris]

I have no idea how to fix it, but I do know that Patrick would probably like a little more data on how the error was generated. So...
What did you do / were you doing when the error was generated?

J

Nothing special, type a message, click send. Happened everytime, the reason for the same post twice in response to Hanson, and the double error posts. Tried to see if it was something I was doing or the server. Line number of error seemed to change between posts, but I suspect that is due to different folders being used for different forums.

At first I thought maybe the first message was too long. Guess I should have made the browser refresh because after looking again in the forum after the error, my post wasn't there, now they are. Seems like they went through after all.

Seems like Patrick has a quota set on the folder to keep the forums from taking over the entire drive in case of spam or attachments. I bet he can tell what the error is. Mostly I was just trying to let him know it was a problem because I was too lazy to look for a direct email addie for him, and that in cases of errors the reports are spitting path information back to the user. He'll know whether he cares about that or not.

[patio11]

Thanks for the warning guys. I've fixed the problem.

Nothing so exotic as a quota. I updated the version of Apache the server was using last week, to fix a problem with email it was sending. (Long and boring story.) In the process, some configuration tweaks I had previously made stopped working. One of those configuration tweaks was upping the amount of memory available to the websites running on the server, which is generally not required but necessary for VBulletin sporadically.

I've re-upped the amount of memory available, so you shouldn't see this error any more. If you do, please tell me.

Regards,

Patrick

[stannard67]

Best. Admin. Ever.

[patio11]

Nah, the Best Admin Ever parts are the ones you guys don't hear about because I get them right the first time. (Backups, for example. We went six years without a hard drive failure, which is good, because any hard drive failure would have probably wiped out everything ever written on the site. Now we'll survive anything short of an atomic device in St. Louis or me having a greatly uncharacteristic attack of drama.)