Magento

That’s right. I ‘successfully’ added all of my 730 categories to my test Magento database.  When I go to http://www.myurl.com/index.php/admin/catalog_category/ I get an error that the memory size has been exhausted.  I did figure out a fix for this.  It’s really quite simple.  I just had to raise the memory limit from 1024MB to 1536MB!

Seriously though, is Magento written only for very small catalogs?  I could easily add another 400-700 categories to my shop.  Is this something that can be fixed or is this a fundemental problem with having so many features?  Do I need to colocate a massive computer with 16GB RAM for this to function with a catalog this size or is there some way to address this (rediculous) memory usage?

OK, maybe I didn’t make it obvious but this problem isn’t solved.  Saying I figured out the solution to my problem was to up the php memory limit to 1536MB was not really the solution to this problem.  Can anyone comment on this problem?  I’m sure the problem is that it loads every category in your database and puts it into an expanded category tree.  I think the better solution would be to grab all top level categories and have a little bit of loading each time a category is clicked.  This would keep the memory well inside the regular 64MB default and also cause the page to load in less than 2 minutes. 

Is the current behavior considered a problem that needs to be addressed or am I going to have to edit whatever file generates that page so that it only pulls top-level categories to start.

I am just realizing this to be a serious problem with my 900+ categories. I can’t even open the page to manage categories or products. I am looking into this problem. I will post if I figure anything out. I am discussing it in: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/7519/