[wp-hackers] Plugin activation fatal error

[Sabin Iacob]

Austin Matzko wrote:
> In similar situations, I've just commented out the body of the plugin,
> activated it (with no errors), then un-commented it

if this worked, then probably the activation was failing due to
exhausting the available memory; amazingly or not, there are still hosts
that use memory_limit = 8M in the php config; a vanilla wordpress was
taking up around 5.5 MB of memory the last time I checked (2.2, I
think), and plugins add to that; I had this problem reported to me with
a plugin that I wrote, and discovered that a php library that I was
using managed to eat about 2 MB of memory, and managed to work around
the problem by loading the thing only when needed.