[SOLVED] HOw do I avoid "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted "

[cooldude832]

I get this on a page

 

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /home/rl/public_html/sandbox/functions.php on line 359

 

I know its running a lot of stuff, but it needs to.

[benjaminbeazy]

ini_set('memory_limit', '16M');

 

where 16 is however much memory you want to allocate in megabytes

[cooldude832]

so I take it 8388608 bytes is 16Mb,

also is there a .htaccess way to write this?

 

Edit:

I think its 8mb cause I am seeing in phpinfo

memory_limit 8M 8M

[cooldude832]

I figured out how to increase, but I am trying to reduce its useage.

Let me expalin what I am doing

 

I am using IMAP to open a mail box

Then find all unseen messages

then from there read the messages extract data based on sender and then off to mysql

 

Any ideas?

[cooldude832]

So i solved it, I had an email I tried to read as html and it wasn't html so it ended up workin on the whole message instead of a 40 byte string 100 times so it did about 50000 times the work.