I installed Drush today, had it working fine, and then promptly created memory havic by (I believe) installing too many modules at once. What can I say? The power of drush went *straight* to my head!

Either way, I've tried many fixes and the drupal site itself works but all drush commands produce:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/lterpal/drush/includes/environment.inc on line 350

Or, if the command is preceded by sudo:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/lterpal/drush/includes/environment.inc on line 437

I've tried increasing the memory (post-error) in these places to no avail:

/etc/php5/cli/php.ini
/var/www/mysite/sites/default/settings.php added: ini_set('memory_limit', '150M');
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Also restarted apache, rebooted , $ source .bashrc
My setup: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 with Suhosin-Patch

My experience thus far seems very similar to #457416: allowed memory size error: Drush CLI may use different php settings from "regular" Drupal

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greg.1.anderson’s picture

greg.1.anderson commented
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drush status will tell you exactly which php.ini drush is using. Maybe 150M isn't enough? I usually am fine with 128M, but I suppose it depends on exactly how many modules you've installed, and what they're doing...

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kbk commented
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OK, so right after my post, I noticed Moshe's comment here. The command listed did the trick for me. Feel free to mark as dup of #671898: installsite needs more memory than php cli has by default.

BTW, my experience with drush thus far has been analogous to my first car: excitement, drive fast, crash, hooked. Thanks for your work on this.

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kbk commented
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

Here's the output of the status command:
$ php -d memory_limit=64M /home/mydir/drush/drush.php status

PHP configuration : /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Drush version : 3.3
Drush configuration :

I upped the memory to 280mb but, but all "$ drush" commands still produce the original errors. When the problem started my memory was at the default (16 or 32mb). I also noticed that the above status command works down to 4mb. For example:
$ php -d memory_limit=4M /home/mydir/drush/drush.php status

*Edited to obfuscate directory name

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moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Correcting issue status, see #2125263: Issue status not taken from last comment during D7 migration.