apache and php
 

I am running a cyrus imap server using squirrel mail. Everything works fine except I have a few folders that have quite a few emails. The work fine when using evolution but when I use it through the web and I go to these larger folders I get this error and apache basically dies, any ideas?

[Sun Oct 26 13:31:01 2003] [error] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 44 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

Take a look at php.ini and increase the memory_limit variable to say 16M rather than 8M:
memory_limit = 16M

You may also need to tweak the execution as well:
max_execution_time = 30

thanks, it works perfect now, no errors. is there and vulnerabilities now by raising the memory limit?

Not really - it is there as a safeguard to stop applications from taking over all your server resources - I wouldn't worry about increasing the value by such a small amount though.

I was wondering if I installed zend if this would also help out with this problem.

I've had good luck with turck-mmcache. Incidentally, do you have squirrelmail set to display all messages in the folder, or N per page?

It displays a certain amount per page. I think I have it set to 30