On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Gareth Ardron wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 12:13, Derick Rethans wrote:
>
> > > > > My suggestion - add -dmemory_limit=32M to PEAR_INSTALL_FLAGS (16M solves
> > > > > the problem on my Linux box, but I think we should go higher to be on the
> > > > > safe side).
> > > >We prolly should highen the limit to a default 16M too for PHP 5.
>
> > Because applications in PHP 5 will most likely be larger usually due to
> > the better support for OO. People will earlier attempt to create more
> > complex applications and easily get over the low limit of 8MB.
> > Additionaly to this, you can't even resize a truecolor jpg (1600x1200)
> > at this moment with the default memory limit because GD uses about 4
> > times the amount of pixels in an image as memory.
>
> To be honest, I've never understood why. php_imlib2 seems to run though
> things fine with large files, and the structure of that is hardly
> uncommon, and it's not like I've been doing anything dodgy with fudging
> the zend api to get it to work right.

It was changed for a reason, that is that people could GD to crash
servers quite easily. Removing this restriction is not an option.

Derick

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