What's limiting my PHP resources?

Question

I\'m having a problem getting more memory out of PHP.

This is the error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to a         


        

Answer 1

My first instinct is to guess that PHP is reading a different php.ini.

In Debian (and most likely Ubuntu), each version of PHP (cli, cgi, and apache) has its own copy of php.ini.