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Hi,

If this is answered elsewhere I apologize. 

We have been using a Multi-Select field to hold and display (and allow people to choose) our Categories.  A typical Category can be: "Contractor-Kitchen and Bath Design, Remodeling/Planning-Home Interior Design"  and there can be 150-250 Categories.  When we go back to edit the categories this is the error we get:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 266241 bytes) in /home/hillsdal/public_html/media/civicrm/templates_c/en_US/en_US/%%8B/8BF/8BF30E03%%Option.tpl.php on line 25

Where should I attack this problem:  1)at the php level,  2) tpl (template) level, 3) field level??
I'm not a coder by nature so please be kind with your answer.

Thanks.

I did read the other entries.

I increased the php memory_limit in 16MB intervals starting at the default 32M, e.g.  32M,48M,64M,80M,...  The magic number was 90MB.  Why would 1 field edit require 58MB more memory (90MB-32MB)??