Memory problems runnng archive.php

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Hello, I’m using Matomo 3.4.0 (MySQL: 4.1.25, PHP: 5.5.38) for a single site on a commercial hosting. When I run the cron/archive.php I get the following error:

INFO CoreAdminHome[2018-04-04 23:42:51 UTC] [db604] Error: Got invalid response from API request: ?module=API&method=API.get&idSite=1&period=day&date=last52&format=php&trigger=archivephp. Response was ‘a:2:{s:6:“result”;s:5:“error”;s:7:“message”;s:85:“Allowed memory size of 805306368 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4294967296 bytes)”;}’

I also tried to completely empty the Matomo database (a few months of unprocessed data were collected…), but nothing changed: the error is exactly the same.
The strange numbers showed for allowed memory (800MB) and requested memory (4GB!) have a meaning? Am I experiencing a configuration error, or is this just a way for Matomo to tell me that I need more memory?
Thank you!

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Matomo 3.4 should not be able to run at all with MySQL 4 and PHP 5.5!?

That error you are seeing is a PHP error, but it should not use 4GB RAM…

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Matomo runs on PHP version 5.5.9 or greater, but indeed needs at least MySQL version 5.5.

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You made me figure out that my server doesn’t match the minimum requirements for both php and mysql. I never thought about it because I installed Piwik using my hosting provider’s installer… Thank you.