I was installing APC on a server and ran across this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 92160 bytes) in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/PackageFile/v2/Validator.php on line 1831 One would assume that fixing this would be to edit the php.ini file and change the memory settings. However, that is not the case [...]