#1338 - The Cron Daemon is emitting errors at 1 minute intervals

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By Guest posted
Running the cron job by hand gives:

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<body><div class="global_middle"><h1 class="screen_title">Critical error &ndash; bailing out</h1>
<div class="red_alert" role="error">This is an error that has been elevated to critical error status because it occurred during the primary error mechanism reporting system itself (possibly due to it occuring within the standard output framework). It may be masking a secondary error that occurred before this, but was never output - if so, it is likely strongly related to this one, thus fixing this will fix the other.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 50px">PHP ERROR [1] Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes) in sources/mail.php on line 534 (version: 9.0.5, PHP version: 5.3.20, URL: /home/vwgolfm/public_html/data/cron_bridge.php)<div class="box guid_{_GUID}"><div class="box_inner"><h2>Stack trace&hellip;</h2>

File -> &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/failure.php&#039;

Line -> 792

Function -> &#039;die_html_trace&#039;

Args -> array (
0 =&gt; &#039;PHP ERROR [1] Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes) in sources/mail.php on line 534 (version: 9.0.5, PHP version: 5.3.20, URL: /home/vwgolfm/public_html/data/cron_bridge.php)&#039;,
)


File -> &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/global2.php&#039;

Line -> 1011

Function -> &#039;_fatal_exit&#039;

Args -> array (
0 =&gt; &#039;PHP ERROR [1] Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes) in sources/mail.php on line 534&#039;,
)


File -> &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/failure.php&#039;

Line -> 224

Function -> &#039;fatal_exit&#039;

Args -> array (
0 =&gt; &#039;PHP ERROR [1] Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes) in sources/mail.php on line 534&#039;,
)


File -> &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/global2.php&#039;

Line -> 874

Function -> &#039;_Composr_error_handler&#039;

Args -> array (
0 =&gt; &#039;error&#039;,
1 =&gt; 1,
2 =&gt; &#039;Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes)&#039;,
3 =&gt; &#039;sources/mail.php&#039;,
4 =&gt; 534,
)


File -> &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/global2.php&#039;

Line -> 810

Function -> &#039;Composr_error_handler&#039;

Args -> array (
0 =&gt; 1,
1 =&gt; &#039;Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17131744 bytes)&#039;,
2 =&gt; &#039;/home/vwgolfm/public_html/sources/mail.php&#039;,
3 =&gt; 534,
)


Function -> &#039;catch_fatal_errors&#039;

Args -> array (
)


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By Guest posted
Top is showing that there is about 205Mbytes free
By Guest posted
So mail.php is giving up after not being able to allocate enough memory.

Any idea why that might be ?
By Guest posted
I am still getting new post email notifications as well - I thought this job controlled that ?
By Guest posted
MySQL returns rows in storage order. If rows are deleted, new rows typically go in the hole. Hence why some of the queue sends. I'll investigate, later tonight I think. You may want to temporarily disable CRON if the messages are getting too annoying, or turn the frequency down.
By Guest posted
Cheers Chris
I have set it to every 10 minutes.
By Guest posted
I fixed this. It was an email with a 13MB attachment within the Comcode. It was failing to convert it to base64 to encode into the email. I have put in a 5MB limit, this is really rare.

However I have noticed (an unrelated issue) CRON is slow for you even when immediately refreshing, it should be really fast in such a situation. So I am studying this.
By Guest posted
Hmm, that was probably just a concurrency issue of some kind. It is fast again now. Ok, resolved.
By Guest posted
Excellent - thanks for getting on and fixing it so quickly.
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