[@pparson Member 12 years, 8 months ago]

Yay, it’s me again.

I gave some other plugins a try yesterday: wp forum, mingle and simple-press.

All of them range between 1M and 2M of memory usage on my local installation, which seems fair to me. All of them seem to offer basic forum features one needs, mingle seems a bit overfeatured for my use case.

I think I’ll stick with Simple-Press.

Feel free to flag this topic as resolved if you like.

Thanks for your attention.

[@pparson Member 12 years, 8 months ago]

Okay, I hate having forum monologues, but maybe someone will find this interesting.

I have just checked the memory usage of the same blog on my local machine using TPC Memory Usage plugin, with all other plugins disabled: 17M

When enabling bbPress, memory usage jumps up to 22M.

5M for a single plugin, that is far more than my the other plugins use altogether… phew.

Yes, you might argue that a plugin with much functionality needs more RAM. But nevertheless: any hints how this could possibly be reduced? Apart from looking for another, more light-weight forum plugin?

Thanks

[@pparson Member 12 years, 8 months ago]

Btw: There are not too many plugins installed, and I had just removed several plugins some days before I first tried bbPress, so it really seems to be bbPress needing quite some memory… I’d really love if other users encountered the same behavior, and how it could be solved.

Thanks again

[@pparson Member 12 years, 8 months ago]

Dear bbPress-Team and community,

I finally got hold of the server’s error log files, after grepping through gigabytes of error messages from other websites running on the server, I came accross those (which is exactly the time when I tried to call /wp-admin/ with bbPress plugin activated):

[Tue Apr 17 17:54:48 2012] [error] [client […]] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in […]/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php on line 859

[Tue Apr 17 17:54:53 2012] [error] [client […]] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in […]/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/theme.php on line 255

Seems to be a memory issue. As I said before, the problem goes away as soon as I remove the bbPress directory from plugins, so it seems the issue is related to bbPress.

Do you have any idea how this problem could be solved? E.g. is there anything to configure or comment out in the code in order to decrease memory usage?

Best regards and thanks,

Peter