Error message: allowed memory size ...exhausted - What to do

[beatrice]

Hello,

while trying to View Frontend, a nearly blank window with only following message appeared:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 523800 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/shoji_bau_shop/system/libraries/Database.php on line 153

what does that mean and where can I solve this problem.
(the messages I've found so far on this forum, don't say where exactly one could allocate more memory ...
I am on mac os x 10.6.8. but the contao/isotope site I try to build is only a couple of pages yet with small optimized images, no rich media content.

bye,
beatrice

[Ruud]

It is a server message. The memory size that each process can use can be a setting defined by php. Look on the server for the php.ini and inside that you might find the memory_limit set to 32 (which is the limit in your message). I have it set to 128 which works usually.

If you cannot change the php.ini you can either ask your webhost to change it, or try if you can change ini settings when inside php: http://php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

[beatrice]

Thanks a lot!
bye,
beatrice