Nginx or PHP FPM ignores memory_limit in php.ini

Question

Server info: Ubuntu Server, Nginx, PHP FPM

in /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini I have: memory_limit = 512M in /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf

Answer 1

You can take Nginx out of the picture, it just passes the request on, it's in php-fpm running your php code.

you might check your suhosin settings, suhosin.memory_limit.

when you see your phpinfo output there should be 2 columns, master and local for memory_limit, what do these each show?

128M is the default for memory_limit in php 5.3

Answer 2

Ok this is daft but I had memory_limit set to 2GB, which isn't understood. When I changed that to 2000M it worked!

Answer 3

For me it also ignored php.ini and I had to do the following:

vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 10000M ;128M

Then restart php-fpm:

service php-fpm restart

Answer 4

In /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf I have php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 512M

This works for me.

Answer 5

Also encountered this now and wanted to increase memory of our server in a DigitalOcean droplet

To summarize, here is what I did

sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf

-- press Ctrl-W to do a search in nano text editor
-- if php_admin_value[memory_limit] is there, change it
php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 512M

sudo service php5-fpm restart

You don't need to restart nginx, just restarting php would be enough.

Answer 6

The problem may be in fpm the process duplication, even you change your /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini it was not effect.

• Stop php5-fpm with (ubuntu): sudo service php5-fpm stop
• check that no more fpm processes: sudo ps ax | grep fpm
• if any kill it all with: sudo kill -9 pid
• be sure that you kill all fpm processes
• restart: sudo service php5-fpm restart