4MB Attachment fails. Any idea why?

[trgreen]

When I try to attach a 4MB mp3 file, I get this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4330275 bytes)

I have allowed .mp3 in the attachment manager, I defined the MIME properly, my PHP upload limit is set to 20MB.

Can anyone help with this?

[trgreen]

Never mind. I fixed it by moving attachments out of the database and into the file system.

Someone please let me know if that was a bad idea...

[lood2]

It is how it should be for big boards

[jasonlitka]

To solve the original problem, if you see that message again then you can get rid of it by increasing the "memory_limit" in your php.ini file.