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cPanel Out of Memory Errors

Posted by Vanessa | Tagged under , | Posted on January 8, 2010

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I’ve seen several features of cPanel appear to malfunction, and upon reviewing /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log, I’d see something similar to this:

Out of memory during request for 2180 bytes, total sbrk() is 130234368 bytes!

Common places this has been known to occur:

  • In Webmail (Horde and Roundcube)  when opening large attachments
  • Using cPanel’s perl module installer

You could legitimately be out of RAM, but most likely the cause is cPanel’s internal memory limit. You can raise this in WHM > Tweak Settings:

“The maximum memory a cPanel process can use before it is killed off (in megabytes). Values less than 128 megabytes can not be specified. A value of “0″ will disable the memory limits.”

Or you can adjust the maxmem setting in /var/cpanel/cpanel.config.

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Comments (2)

Presoon said on Feb-25-2010

Thank you…. that worked well..
I faced the issue with the update now button in Awstats. It give a blank page. The cPanel error log showed out of memory issue.

This fix really helped me. :)
Centriohost said on May-10-2010

Set the value 128, so that it helps.

Centriohost.com – Cheap Reseller and Master Reseller Hosting provider since 2007.

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