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What is, if there is one, memory_limit minimum for Geeklog?
I'm running a website (GL 1.3.11) on a host with memory_limit = 3145728 bytes and looks like it's not enough
The problem, one of many, is with story editing.
When I try to pos a new story via Admin's panel I get this error:

Actually I can't enter the panel because of this however I can post a story via Submit link.
The other error appears upon story saving

Is there a solution, apart from increasing the memory_limit, for this?

Thanks
Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

That is a really low memory limit. You must be using a pretty cheap host. You might want to just ask them to up the memory limit. I don't think anyone has done any testing to determine what an "optimal" or "minimum" memory limit is for Geeklog. However, typical memory_limit settings are usually around 16M. It looks like your host is trying to save memory by setting this to 3MB.

Note that really big/busy sites, like Groklaw, run into a similar memory problems even when the memory_limit is set to 16M or higher. But they run into the problem when trying to display an article with 1200+ comments).

-Vinny

As a matter of fact it is cheap however previously I hosted this on a free server but ... The thing is that the site started as a part of my studies, students' community site, I just wanted it to stay alive so I wasn't interested in a very fancy hosting service.
Anyway they promised to increase the memory limit however I don't think it would be enough.
What I don't understand is that there is no memory issue with static pages, huge ones, whereas with one word stories I get Fatal blahblah.
The world is full of mysteries
Thank you vinny

Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

The problem has nothing (or very little) to do with the size of your content. I doubt any article or static page you write uses more than a couple kilobytes (and that would be ALOT).

The problem is with our current template system. The bigger, more complex, or more in number of templates that are compiled during a page load the more memory that gets eaten up. Staticpages have a very simple template, while some pages (such as the admin story page) are more complicated and use more templates.

-Vinny

Right it even shows where the problem is -> template.class.php
Now another question is it layout dependent or it's a general problem for all layouts?
I mean are there lighter and heavier layouts?
Thanks Vinny

Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

Would a CSS based theme make it a bit easier? There are lots of GL themes which are loaded with font and table tags etc.

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Smaller themes (and hence CSS based themes) would help a little bit, but the primary problem is with the template engine.

-Vinny