Memory exhausting issue

[subeeshkk]

Hi all,

I have an issue regarding the cronjob.
I have written a cron job(a php script) to run on 7:15 AM every day. The php script is to parse a big XML file, and then update the database. But when this cron job is executed, I am getting mail (the cron error) as follows

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35
bytes) in /scripts/class.XMLParser.php on line 121

In the 121 st line of this file is

$parser = xml_parser_create('ISO-8859-1');

xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);

xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); //line 121

xml_parser_free($parser);

But what is strange is when I execute this file manually via URL, this is working fine. Only through cronjob, its showing this error. What may be the reason?

I had googled a lot, and as per some tutorials, I looked into my "memory_limit" php.ini configuration variable. It is like this

memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)

I tried by increasing this as

memory_limit = 256M

Does this make sense? Still the error is same? Anybody have any idea like, why error comes through CRON JOB and NOT via URL ?

My cronjob entry for this one looks as follows

15 7 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /scripts/cron_squads.php

Please help me, I have already spent a lot of time for this....

Thanks in advance,
Subeesh

[NogDog]

When run by cron the script is executed via the CLI interface, not the web interface, so it may be running under different configuration settings. You could try using ini_set() within the script itself to change the limit.

<?php
ini_set('memory_limit', '128M');

[subeeshkk]

Hi..

Thanks for your reply. I have used ini_set to change the memory limit instead of doing it directly in php.ini and the error has gone.

Thank you very much..
Subeesh