[horde] attachment problem

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>:

> Rick ,
>
> You are right. I see the following in log
>
> --
> PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted
> (tried to allocate 11581821 bytes) in
> /var/www/html/h/lib/Horde/Serialize.php on line 278
> --
>
> But I don't understand why it is failing since allowed memory is
> greater than tried to allocate bytes.

Because the "allocated X bytes" reported in the log is the amount PHP  
attempted to allocate *in addition* to whatever memory was already  
being used.  e.g. in the log entry above, PHP may have already been  
using 134217728 bytes; allocating 1 additional byte is what triggers  
the error.

> And I have 128M memory limit. Trying to keep it down since my server
> has really high number of web server child processes :)

Then you have to accept the fact that you can't send large attachments.

FYI, IMP 5 solves (most) of these issues as it handles message data  
entirely via streams, automatically spooling to disk once memory usage  
goes above 2 MB.  Unfortunately this is not available in IMP 4/Horde 3  
since these streams are a relatively recent addition to PHP.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]