Sitemap Generator Forum

I just installed this sitemap generator, and am having major problems with it.  I am getting the same memory limit error as a lot of other people, and tried all of the posted fixes.  As this is on a dedicated box I was able to set the memory limit up to 500 megs.  It still failed.  I am very concerned about running any program that requires that much memory on my box.  Why doesn't it periodically write the memory to cache files before it fails?

Why doesn't it periodically write the memory to cache files before it fails?

Hello,

you can use "Save state" option for that.

this is for a realty site where we want to index all of the properties, so there are a lot of pages.

Links depth: 1
Current page: useful_stuff/resource/Massachusetts_North_Shore_Real_Estate.html
Pages added to sitemap: 40
Pages scanned: 40 (12,752.1 Kb)
Pages left: 253 (+ 107302 queued for the next depth level)
Time passed: 0:15
Time left: 1:36
Memory usage: 31,787.3 Kb

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 524288000 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2358141 bytes) in /home/windhill/public_html/sitemap/pages/class.grab.inc.php(2) : eval()'d code on line 298

are the details.  I set the save state to 5 seconds, and it is still crashing.

Saving the state every 5 seconds is way too often. You should set it to a few minutes (90-300 seconds).
Also, for larger sites it is recommended to execute it from the command line (via SSH access).

if i do run it from the command line will i still have the memory errors?

Usually the scripts executed from command line use different php configuration comparing to web scripts, so your memory limit may be higher (or no limit at all).