Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43148176 bytes) in php

Question

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Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43148176 bytes) in php

Answer 1

We had a similar situation and we tried out given at the top of the answers ini_set('memory_limit', '-1'); and everything worked fine, compressed images files greater than 1MB to KBs.