okay, im new here, i have searched the forums as thats what everyone wants noobs to do before posting, the closest i could find was this dude being told to increase it to 128 meg for memory allocation for scripts in the php.ini which i think worked for him i took thousands of photographs at the commonwealth games in march, and have been uploading them to my site through march, april and may, however, last wednesday, i created a new empty album on my gallery (im using this gallery application installed onto my site gallery.menalto.com) and it said memory exhausted of 8 megs, my host put this up to 16 megs, at which point again, it said memory had exhausted, so they put it up again to 17 at which point it said the 60 second message, so i went into my php.ini file and changed the setting to 0 for unlimited and also bumped the allocated memory to 128 megs, and now, after a few minutes it just says the site isnt responding when im in internet explorer, it says error 504 connection timed out i have under a thousand photos in the commonwealth games album, the other albums work okay, in this album, there are about 20 nested albums but all photos are around 100 kb in size, i cant see how one day it works very well, the next day, it starts displaying these errors, i only know the very very basics of php since i started hunting down answers for this, but i program in vb so php is foreign to me. i dont understand how so much memory is being used, when it wasnt the other day when it was working, but i dont know where to start, the error messages it pointed to before i changed the settings, was to various lines in various files, however one of the main ones was util.php but i dont know what info you guys need to be able to help, so please let me know if you want me to post any code or anything like that thanks!