Memory limit when uploading product image

Question

I just setup a testing installation yesterday. I ran the server-check file and all was fine. Installation went smoothly.

The image upload doesn't work in the Backend! After uploading any image, even as small as 1kb, the error "Memory limit has been reached." appears and the image is not stored. The memory limit for PHP is set very high (several GiB or even -1 for unlimited)

Answer 1

You can try to increase de memory limit of your php:

Open /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini in a text editor

Change memory_limit to:

memory_limit = 256M

And you can check creating a file info.php

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Check the variable: memory limit

Answer 2

There is a known bug in the GD library of Magento CE 1.x where it can't handle memory limits other than in KB or MB. To solve the issue and assign higher memory limits (GB), you will need to make the following changes to the file /lib/Varien/Image/Adapter/Gd2.php:

Find:

protected function _convertToByte($memoryValue)
{
    if (stripos($memoryValue, 'M') !== false) {
        return (int)$memoryValue * 1024 * 1024;
    }
    elseif (stripos($memoryValue, 'KB') !== false) {
        return (int)$memoryValue * 1024;
    }
 
    return (int)$memoryValue;
}

Add the following lines before the final return statement:

    elseif (stripos($memoryValue, 'G') !== false) {    // Support value in gigabytes
        return (int)$memoryValue * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
    }
    elseif (trim($memoryValue) == '-1') {              // Support unlimited memory
        return 8589934592;                             // Use 8GB
    }

Thanks to Sangay Tenzin and @Josef for making this info available.