Update s2Member Pro v120703 – memory problem

Hello,
I have faced a problem when trying to make an automatic update of s2Member Pro v120703. I had no problem with previous version but for this one, I have this error message:

Not enough memory. Unzipping s2Member Pro via WordPress® requires 256M of RAM. Please upgrade via FTP instead..

I was a little surprised and made a verification creating a info.php file: I have 512 Mo of RAM on my webhosting. So I made a manual update but it seems a little weird.

Hi Jean,

You should be able to upgrade by following the FTP installation instructions: s2Member® » Pro » Install/Upgrade Instructions.

Yes, I did update by FTP. I wanted just to tell about this strange error message.

Hi Jean-Michel.

Could you try this server check tool and see if everything looks fine there? http://www.s2member.com/r/server-check-tool/

Eveything is OK with the Check Tool.

Then I don’t know why you got the memory problem… Are you in a shared host? maybe at that moment the available resources were low? I don’t know.

s2Member is a large plugin and sometimes WordPress could have memory problems when decompressing it on installation. The FTP upload is reliable and a good solution if the installation/update from the dashboard has issues.

Yes, on a shared webhost. I will see next update if it works or not.

Okay. :)

The server check tool just looks at the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT or WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT to see if there’s enough memory. These can be set by the user to fool the server check tool.

In the last release of S2Member Pro, it looks like a strange check has been added though that
uses this to check for sufficient memory:

@ini_set("memory_limit", apply_filters("admin_memory_limit",
 WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT)) !== "nill" && @ini_get("memory_limit") === apply_filters(
"admin_memory_limit", WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT)

So, if you want to fool the upgrader code, you have to find out this value:

ini_get(“memory_limit”)

(which you can do by using ‘echo phpinfo()’) And then set WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT in your wp-config.php file to match it.
At least, that’s what worked for me.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by  Tuhin Chowdhury.

Tuhin,

Thank you for sharing that information.