You shouldn't be running into memory issues though, I would guess that it is either a server issue, or you have something running into an infinite loop
How would I even begin to go about tracking down the issue?
deactivate all the plugins and then reactivate them one at a time or something?
That's pretty much it unless you have any more meaningful error logs. If a clean installation still runs in to those memory errors then it's a hosting problem.
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