How to blow memory allocation

OpenEMR Development
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tmccormi wrote on Thursday, May 17, 2012:

Here’s a little thing we discovered. 

If you are converting balance forward records from a previous system, don’t arbitrarily put them all on the same “date of service” in the form_encounter file.   15,000 records with the same date causes a memory allocation fatal crash in billing_report.php

Just thought I’d share that bit of joy I’ve been experiencing today …

Tony
www.mi-squared.com / @tonymi2
oemr.org / @OEMR_org

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rnagul wrote on Thursday, March 07, 2013:

Tony, Did you ever figure out a solution for this?

Ramesh

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yehster wrote on Thursday, March 07, 2013:

https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/master/interface/globals.php#L10

One of the issues we’ve discovered is that OpenEMR overrides the PHP.ini settings for memory limit.  Not sure what the thinking was, it has been this way since 2008.

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yehster wrote on Thursday, March 07, 2013:

The default is now 128M BTW.

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php

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tmccormi wrote on Friday, March 08, 2013:

That globals overide should be removed entirely.
-Tony

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, March 08, 2013:

Hi,

Kind of funny that we also recommend 128M here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_are_the_correct_PHP_settings_.28can_be_found_in_the_php.ini_file.29_.3F

But then hard-code it to 64M in interface/globals.php…
Agree with Tony to remove it entirely.

-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Saturday, March 09, 2013:

Hi,

I just committed this to sourceforge (removed the overiide for php memory limit in interface/globals.php)

-brady
OpenEMR