Blank pages in Drupal

[giza]

Ever get blank pages in Drupal? I figured out that sometimes it's merely a memory issue. When a PHP instance (being run out of an Apache child) runs out of memory, it just quits silently and doesn't send anything back to the web browser.

The fix for this is to put the following line at the top of index.php:

ini_set("memory_limit", "16M");

If that fails to fix the problem, try increasing the memory.

Comments

[balinares.livejournal.com]

Oh, since you're bringing it up -- how DO you intercept this class of error to report it cleanly? This has been a pain in my ass for a while now. :(

[giza.livejournal.com]

From the PHP code? I'm not sure if that's possible. :-/

[zeeth_kyrah]

I suspect that Apache or some extra log-watching process would have to catch the error (if it even returns one), and I'm not sure that there's a clean or efficient method for doing so.