Fatal Memory Error?

Anyone know what this means?

[Compworld]

I am receiving the following error on my linux box when I try an use certain programs on my sites:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6400 bytes) in /home/httpd/vhosts/httpdocs/include/picmgmt.inc.php on line 209

Thanks,

CompWorld

[cmatcme]

Could it be possible that you ran out of memory?

[Compworld]

It's on my server, so it is doubtful. The server has 512K. Could it be a bad file?

[longen]

As always:
google for "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of"

see how others deal with the problem

[Leffe]

You ran out of memory, increase the memory limit or fix the bug in the script causing the leak.

[iamlost]

Check the value of memory_limit in /etc/httpd/php.ini (common placement) and increase the memory allowed php.

Note: You might also want to check the script(s) that throw the error for endless looping or similar memory leaking. Especially if major memory jump doesn't solve prob.