[TYPO3] Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

[Tony Davidson]

I've been receiving the following message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to 
allocate 46080 bytes) in 
/home/zebnet/public_html/public/typo3conf/ext/irfaq/pi1/class.tx_irfaq_pi1.php 
on line 400

and the consensus from looking on this list seems to be that the memory 
limit in php.ini needs to be increased.

Our sites are hosted and I'm having troubles getting the hoster to make 
changes. They've made some changes and the error happens less frequently 
but it still pops up at times.

What is actually causing the error?  (i.e. why does it happen some times 
and not others)?


Also, this from another post:

Tapio Markula wrote:
 > Ries van Twisk wrote:
 >
 > try
 > ini_set(memory_limit, '30M');
 >
 > in the top of the localconf.php
 > int2000 offers 16MB but I could override it with that function

I've had a look at the localconf.php file and it doesn't have anything 
remotely like this line.  Most of the lines start $TYPO3_CONF_VARS or 
similar.

tony