Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted

[dbjs2009]

Greetings,
Recently I got this error whenever I went to a certain section of my website (PhpBB):

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in .........../public_html/cm/downloads.php on line 379

I know it's a problem that is related to the 64MB memory limit but the problem is that I never changed anything and everything has been running smoothly for years now, it could be a new update that messed this up or something else that I'm not aware of, can anyone please help me with this?

Your support is greatly appreciated

 

[dbjs2009]

Do people get any kind of support here?!

 

[essellar]

I can't say anything for certain with regard to your site, but that error is often caused by less-than-graceful handling of MySQL errors (the script tries again and again without freeing the memory resources used in previous failed attempts until memory is exhausted). Is this something you're experiencing continually, or does it only happen, say, when the server is slow/busy?

 

[dbjs2009]

The error kept occurring, I don't think it was when the server is slow or something because all the other pages worked fine, except for this one. I haven't modified anything in a long time, it's like you sleep the night with no errors then you wake up and you see an error suddenly pops out of nowhere.

 

[essellar]

You say it's with "one area" of your site? Which area? What's different about it? (This is part of troubleshooting the problem, not snark.)