how to fix unable to allocate memory for pool error

In this post, I will tell you how to fix the PHP error Unable to allocate memory for pool.

You will see this error in your error.log file as this:

PHP Warning: require_once(): Unable to allocate memory for pool.

The problem is that you have not enough memory configured to your APC cache. Standard, APC has a memory limit of 32MB. When your APC cache is full, you will have many cache misses and that causes the error (see image below).

To fix this, open the apc.ini file and update the apc.shm_size value. Start with 128MB;

apc.shm_size=128M

Now, you have to test if this is enough memory. To do so, you can download a file named apc.php. This can be found here.

[wpdm_file id=3]

You need to upload this file to your root. When you surf to http://…/apc.php, you will see a statistics page. This page tells you everything about the APC cache. When you have enough memory, the cache hits should be greater that the cache misses and the cache full count should be 0. To test properly, make sure your server runs for more than one day so you have a realistic view.

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