I want to share something that happened to me on the way.
I uploaded an image to my website and after that I created some thumbs. Those thumbs where being cropped automatically from relatively big files (jpeg images of about 5mb), and I was doing that lots of times. Suddenly, when uploading a big file and doing a thumb from a cropped image (not the original), I found out this error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22464 bytes)
How could I exhaust 128Mb of memory?