On my development, windows machine, the memory_limit iniValue is set to 128M, and on the production server - think linux box, it's set to 1280M, but, the bit of script to render an image from database as image resource to browser, works fine on my machine, but, on server, the following error occurs: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1342177280 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4294967296 According to server log, it seems to be happening on the line where the mysqli_statement tries to execute the query to retrieve a longblob value of 2.1Mb, but anyway. I am making sure try to destroy any image resources, etc., am closing statement object after executing it, etc. - and there aren't really any recursive loops being executed, but, just a page instantiating an instance of a wrapper class, which then refers to the imageManipulation object, to then pull the images data out of the DB - thoughts? TIA Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'