While installing the Calendar module for a Drupal site, I ran into the following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/milwaul0/public_html/drupal/includes/theme.inc on line 729

Confounded, I searched the internet and found this:

http://drupal.org/node/283579

The first option (making a php.ini file in the root) appears to need a restart of the webserver, so I tried the second option, allocating more memory to php via drupal using:

ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ’64M’); in the sites/default/settings.php file

But before that, I had to change the permissions of the file, which had been set to 555 (default, by the site admin I assume).

I initially set the memory to 64M to make sure it would work, since 33554432 bytes is 32MB. After it worked, I noticed that the permissions for the file had been reset to 555, so I changed that again and allocated 32MB for php. It worked. If ever any problems arise, I’ll know what to do.

What’s weird is that this error was triggered while allocating 71 bytes. I don’t know why there was even an issue… anyone?