Large Images >3mb Fatal error - Out of memory on save
Setup
VPS Dual Core, 4GB Ram
CENTOS 5.9 x86_64 with access to WHM 11.36.0 (build 21)
Drupal 6.26
PHP 5.3.8 (From Drupal Status Reports Page)
PHP memory limit 512M (From Drupal Status Reports Page)
PHP.INI
memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 25M
post_max_size = 25M
Problem
Uploading a JPG image that is only 3.5mb, not using any progress bar just a bare bones drupal install. Upload starts and takes anywhere between 20 seconds and 60 seconds to get one of the following errors.
Error# 1 - Produced when clicking Upload
Create a node -> Click Browse on the cck image -> Upload -> I get a vanilla "An HTTP error 0 occured. /filefield/ahah/[node_type]/[cck_imagefield]/0
Error# 2 - Produced when clicking save instead of upload
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 60293120) (tried to allocate 16640 bytes) in /home/[name]/public_html/sites/all/modules/imageapi/imageapi_gd.module on line 59
What to look for
In my case the exact error message when clicking save was "Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 60293120) (tried to allocate 16640 bytes)". Note that this indicates that only 57.5MB available (thanks to quicksketch for noticing this), so in other words the 512MB indicated in Drupal is not necessarily true.
Solution
I contacted my VPS hosting company for assistance, here is what they say they changed.
The PHP.ini they uploaded was quite different than the quick/simple code you find online. Perhaps some servers require some of these additional lines.
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[Printer]
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[FrontBase]
[Crack]
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