Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/apache2-websites/eunuch.org/www/vbulletin/includes/functions_search.php on line 197

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In trying to post a new thread.

River

I got that a couple times and what I think it is, is that the title of the post is too long for some parameter in the software. Now I don't know much about v-bulletin but I've run into that error periodically. One time I just waited a day and reposted the thread as new text, another I actually did shorten the title and repost the text as straight ascii rather than a cut and paste from a newspaper. I never know what a cut and paste hides inside on some of these websites. And I don't cut and paste from dippy, goofy or porn sites, either. these are newspapers and journals and supposedly legit sources that just love to advertise (the greedy bastards) and hide scripts all over the page.

OH! Hey, this reminds me of that other thread, where we talked about that button that we were supposed to NEVER push. Remember?

Darn, I can't even FIND that button I am (not) supposed to push. I remember someone saying it was close to the bottom of the thread... hmmm

"contact us" could it be that? Or is it the "top" button?

Not that I would EVER do anything that I am not supposed to do or anything like that...

lol thanks I will try that and re-post

As for the bottom of the thread when you do that it will not help me, I am the one that gets the message

River

That was it, title to long.

I started a new thread on people that made a difference in your life.

River

I'm brilliant! (That scares even me.)

Dave, it worries the rest of us a little, too! --FLO--

Even though I am chuckling, I will demystify this entire affair.

It's a matter of patterns. I had this happen more than one and if you remember, I asked in a private email what the error meant. No one knew. So I went back and rebuilt the post. The next time it happened, I waited a few hours, thinking it was possibly a computer busy problem and reposted the thread. The fourth and fifth time it happened. I got tired of doing the work. So I read the error and studied it.

It wasn't the length of the message.

IT wasn't some errant coding in the message text.

It wasn't the time of day (that goes back to computer busy, if the system is trying to back up the hard drive, it might refuse a thread.) but that wasn't correct because it was the wrong time of day.

It wasn't the chat room - that was not going when it happened.

So what was left. That's why I stared at the message.

Note the message says - tried to allocate 35 bytes. That's tiny. That's like 35 characters.

Bingo! What is that short that it only requires an allocation of 35 bytes?

I will bet you that somewhere in v-bulletin is at least one linked list of posts in a database that the program uses to search for posts. That's why you have to put a title in a given field and why it doesn't (like MS Word does) take the first sentence as the title. Each field in that linked list has only so many characters. etc...

That's why I make a good engineer and a good auditor for certain things -- I watch, observe and analyze things into parts and pieces, causes and effect. I remember details. I see patterns and connections. It's not IQ. It's just persistence and memory.

I used to have the problem Dave mentions in the second post of this thread; copy/pasting from web pages.

What I do to completely avoid the whole problem:

Copy text from the page in question; pop open a new raw text ( .txt) file; paste the words into that.

Now, highlight and copy the words from the .txt file and paste THAT into your thread, the final destination.

Kill the .txt file without saving.

Using the raw text file (Notepad on Windows machines) as above strips all garbage script etc from what you paste into the thread you are wanting to make.

(I always have a shortcut to .txt on the desktop for doing this, or program a keyboard shortcut to open it. I always use the simplest programs for doing things; 'notepad' (.txt) for the above, irfanview for adding text to pictures; I think "program overkill" (using too big and powerfull a program to do simple things) is a horrible disease ).

I'm nominating Dave for the River Award of Lifetime Achievement by a senile old guy -