#538032 by Gerhard Killesreiter, webchick: document the pcre limitation which...

#538032 by Gerhard Killesreiter, webchick: document the pcre limitation which might result in empty looking posts; include examples to fix on a Drupal deployment

sites/default/default.settings.php

@@ -147,6 +147,17 @@
 ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',    0);
 ini_set('url_rewriter.tags',        '');
 
+/**
+ * If you encounter a situation where users post a large amount of text, and
+ * the result is stripped out upon viewing but can still be edited, Drupal's
+ * output filter may not have sufficient memory to process it. If you
+ * experience this issue, you may wish to uncomment the following two lines
+ * and increase the limits of these variables. For more information, see
+ * http://php.net/manual/en/pcre.configuration.php.
+ */
+# ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 200000);
+# ini_set('pcre.recursion_limit', 200000);
+
 /**
  * Drupal automatically generates a unique session cookie name for each site
  * based on on its full domain name. If you have multiple domains pointing at