ini_set(“memory_limit”) in PHP 5.3.3 is not working at all

Question

I had this working before :

echo ini_get(\"memory_limit\").\"\\n\";
ini_set(\"memory_limit\",\"256M\");
echo ini_get(\"memory_limit\").\"\\n\";

Answer 1

Ubuntu 10.04 comes with the Suhosin patch only, which does not give you configuration options. But you can install php5-suhosin to solve this:

apt-get update
apt-get install php5-suhosin

Now you can edit /etc/php5/conf.d/suhosin.ini and set:

suhosin.memory_limit = 1G

Then using ini_set will work in a script:

ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');