https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32598

--- Comment #9 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2011-11-23 15:58:56 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> I worked with Daniel to obtain a backtrace; it's an OOM error. Offhand I'd say
> there are three explanations for this:
> 1) the object fetched from memcached is large, e.g. because it includes
> metadata (I now realize that the "(tried to allocate 8208 bytes)" part of the
> error message disproves this)
> 2) GlobalUsage fetches many file objects, and there's a memory leak somewhere
> 3) we're in the post-parse LinksUpdate hook while the parser has just finished
> parsing a large wiki page, so the wikitext and all sorts of metadata and 
> parser
> data structures are still in memory
> 
Daniel blanked the page in question, upon which the bot edit worked fine. He
mentioned the page used to contain a gallery with 7000 images, so I'm now
leaning towards theory #2.

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