Fatal error: Possible integer overflow in memory allocation

[chris.mcinnes]

G'day,

Got a bizzare issue with PHP 5.0.2/Apache constantly generating
variations of the following error:

"Fatal error: Possible integer overflow in memory allocation"

At first I traced it through to any line using the $_SERVER[] command
and so replaced it with $HTTP_SERVER_VA RS[].

This worked fine, however now I seem to get the issue whenever I use a
"preg_match " command.

Is there some greater global variable/configuration item that I need to
sort out to stop this from happening or is it something else?

For example, trying to implement a VERY basic PHP image gallery script,
the following function errors on the "if (preg_match" line - as have
several other scripts.

function GetFileList($di rname="."){
global $config;
$list = array();

if ($handle = opendir($dirnam e)) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle ))) {
if (preg_match("/\.(jpeg|gif|png )$/i",$file)) {
$list[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handl e);
}
sort($list);

return $list;
}#-#GetFileList()

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Chris

[Carl Vondrick]

ch***********@g mail.com wrote:

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

How much memory are you allocating to PHP? I use 8MB in production and 16MB
in development.

You may have faulty memory -- run a memory test at memtest.org
--
Carl Vondrick
Web-Enginner
www.CarlSoft.net
To contact me, please use my website.

[chris.mcinnes]

Carl,

Good call on the memory. I have no idea how much is allocated - how to
I look that up and/or change the allocation?

cheers

chris

[fletch]

Limits are set in php.ini on how much memory a script may use before
php kills it