Composer killed while updating

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I got a problem  I tried to install a new package to my Laravel 4 project  But when I run php composer phar update I get this   Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies  including require-dev  Killed   I have looked for the problem in the Internet and saw that the memory is the problem  I think I don t have enough RAM available  I ve checked this I have about 411mb free  Does composer really need more RAM

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DigitalOcean fix that does not require extra memory - activating swap, here is an example for 1gb:

in terminal run below

/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

The above solution will work until the next reboot, after that the swap would have to be reactivated. To persist it between the reboots add the swap file to fstab:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

open the above file add add below line to the file

/var/swap.1 swap swap sw 0 0

now restart the server. Composer require works fine.

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If like me  you are using some micro VM lacking of memory  creating a swap file does the trick   Check free memory before free -m  mkdir -p  var  swap  cd  var  swap   Here  1M   2000    2GB of swap memory   Feel free to add MORE dd if  dev zero of swapfile bs 1M count 2000 chmod 600 swapfile mkswap swapfile swapon swapfile  Automatically mount this swap partition at startup echo  quot  var  swap  swapfile none swap sw 0 0 quot   gt  gt   etc fstab   Check free memory after free -m  As several comments pointed out  don t forget to add sudo if you don t work as root  btw  feel free to select another location filename size for the file   var is probably not the best place  but I don t know which place would be  and rarely care since tiny servers are mostly used for testing purposes

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You can try setting preferred-install to  dist  in Composer config

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I ve got this error when I ran composer install inside my PHP DOCKER container  It s a memory issue  Solved by increasing SWAP memory in DOCKER PREFERENCES from 512MB to 1 5GB To do that  Docker - gt  Preferences - gt  Rousources

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php -d memory limit 5G composer phar update

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The  quot Killed quot  message usually means your process consumed too much memory  so you may simply need to add more memory to your system if possible  At the time of writing this answer  I ve had to increase my virtual machine s memory to at least 768MB in order to get composer update to work in some situations  However  if you re doing this on a live server  you shouldn t be using composer update at all  What you should instead do is   Run composer update in a local environment  such as directly on your physical laptop desktop  or a docker container VM running on your laptop desktop  where memory limitations shouldn t be as severe  Upload or git push the composer lock file  Run composer install on the live server   composer install will then read from the  lock file  fetching the exact same versions every time rather than finding the latest versions of every package  This makes your app less likely to break  and composer uses less memory  Read more here  https   getcomposer org doc 01-basic-usage md installing-with-composer-lock Alternatively  you can upload the entire vendor directory to the server  bypassing the need to run composer install at all  but then you should run composer dump-autoload --optimize

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If you re using docker you can use COMPOSER PROCESS TIMEOUT environment    COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT  -1   COMPOSER PROCESS TIMEOUT  2000  seconds

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Run composer self-update and composer clearcache remove vendor and composer lock  restart your local environment and then run  php -d memory limit -1  usr local bin composer install

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Unfortuantely composer requires a lot of RAM  amp  processing power  Here are a few things that I did  which combined  made the process bearable  This was on my cloud playpen env    You may be simply running out of RAM  Enable swap  https   www digitalocean com community search q add swap  note  I think best practice is to add a seperate partition  Digitalocean s guide is appropriate for their environment  service mysql stop  kill your DB mem-hog services to free some RAM - don t forget to start it again    use a secondary terminal session running top to watch memory swap consumption until process is complete  composer phar update --prefer-dist -vvv  verbose output  still hangs at some points when working  and use distro zip files   Maybe try a --dry-run too   Composer is apparently know to run slower in older versions of PHP  e g  5 3x   It was still slow in 5 5 9 for me

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composer 2 update have reduced the memory usage composer self-update composer update composer require xxx

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Increase the memory limit for composer php -d memory limit 4G  usr local bin composer update

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Solved on Laravel Homestead  Vagrant Windows   Edit Homestead yaml and increase memory from 2048 to 4096  vagrant up  vagrant ssh  Install Symfony with this line on the folder you choose  must be without files  COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT -1 composer create-project symfony website-skeleton   -s dev

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I was getting this error in a local Docker environment  I solved it by simply restarting Docker

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Here s how I succeeded in installing maatwebsite excel package from composer in Laravel Framework   I download composer json file and composer lock file from my remote server  I run composer update from local command prompt  then wait until all the install process finished   Upload composer lock file to remote server  run composer install on remote server  then wait until all process finished   DONE

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I get this problem caused for a package that don t update correctly with wildcards  I use directly the last version and it works finally    l3 cas-bundle     1 0  -------   l3 cas-bundle    1 1 13

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Fix for AWS ec2 Ubuntu Server Php Memory Value Upgrade For Magento 2 3 X  Php 7 2   7 3 nginx ubuntu composer 1 X mariaDB magento 2 3 X   Error   Updating dependencies  including require-dev  Killed for   Ram Must at least 4GB Change instance type to suitable or Upgrade Ram Php Memory Value change Server Restart Try to install the same package again   PHP value update may locate under   etc php 7 2 fpm php ini  depend on your server and PHP fpm X XX version Using Seed command  change as your server requires  on my case  gt  gt   etc php 7 2 fpm php ini   memory limit type as  quot 3 5G quot  or  quot 3500MB quot  Php 7 2 X  sudo sed -i  quot s memory limit      memory limit   3 5G  quot   etc php 7 2 fpm php ini      Php 7 3 X    sudo sed -i  quot s memory limit      memory limit   3 5G  quot   etc php 7 3 fpm php ini   Test if applied on  free -h  command      free -h  Install-Package Again  Install extension via Composer  go to your Magento 2 installation directory  cd  var www html    with  superuser  privileges  sudo su   Start installation  composer require XXXXXX XXXXXXX   Enable Module s  php bin magento module enable XXXXXX XXXXXXX   php bin magento setup upgrade php bin magento setup di compile php bin magento setup static-content deploy   Restart   sudo reboot  Enjioy

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