Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted (CodeIgniter + XML-RPC)

Question

I have a bunch of client point of sale (POS) systems that periodically send new sales data to one centralized database, which stores the data into one big database for repor

Answer 1

In my case it was a brief issue with the way a function was written. A memory leak can be caused by assigning a new value to a function's input variable, e.g.:

/**
* Memory leak function that illustrates unintentional bad code
* @param $variable - input function that will be assigned a new value
* @return null
**/
function doSomehting($variable){
    $variable = 'set value';
    // Or
    $variable .= 'set value';
}