phpize: command not found

If you ever get phpize: command not found error when trying to install a PEAR package on a linux system, this is probably becuase the php-devel package is not installed.

PHP Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

If you try to install PHP PECL package and get an "Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted" you should know that pecl ignores php.ini memory_limit directive. As suggested in
this post, you should use pear instead of pecl to install you package. For example, instead of doing

[root@hostname tmp]# pecl -v install APC

you should do

[root@hostname tmp]# pecl -v download APC
[root@hostname tmp]# pear -v install APC-3.0.15.tgz