id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
21646	Bump memory limit from 32MB	nacin	nacin	"On some shared hosts and servers, WordPress runs perilously close to 32MB in the dashboard, especially with a number of plugins included. It's time to bump. I am thinking 40MB as a good, relatively round number.

In the near future (once our minimum PHP version is 5.3, and possibly earlier for those already on 5.3), we can look into autoloading of all of our classes. That should take down our memory a bit. (kurtpayne has looked and it's not much, mainly because so many of them are used on most pages.)

Note that increasing the memory limit does not actually result in 8 more megabytes of memory being used. WordPress won't start eating up that memory — just that PHP allows the script to use up to 40MB. Otherwise, hitting 32 would give a fatal error.

We also should ''not'' take this as a license to further increase the side of the WordPress codebase, which has crept up at a pretty steady pace over the years. The only objective is to avoid fatal errors on individual sites."	enhancement	closed	normal	3.5	Performance	3.0	trivial	fixed	2nd-opinion