Composer update memory limit

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I need to run composer update at my hosting so I log in with ssh and try to run the following command inside  www folder where I have Laravel and composer installation  composer update  I get this error   I m in contact with my hosting provider  they told me to run the command  php -d memory limit 512M composer update  I ran this command but I got   quot Could not open file  composer quot  What to do  What is the solution here

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I had to combine COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT and memory limit in the command line   On Windows   set COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 99999999999 amp  amp  php -d memory limit -1 composer phar update   On Linux   export COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 99999999999  amp  amp  php -d memory limit -1 composer phar update

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If there s enough memory composer would internally consume it and run without any problem  No need to specifically tell the composer to do it   Have you tried to increase your swap memory  coz it worked for me  I increased the swap memory to 4096Mb  4GB  and now it all looks great to me   first use  sudo free  to see available memory and swap memory  and configure swap as   For Debian    sudo fallocate -l 4G  swapfile sudo dd if  dev zero of  swapfile bs 4096k count 1048 sudo chmod 600  swapfile sudo mkswap  swapfile sudo swapon  swapfile   to make it permenant add this to  etc fstab file   swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0  For CentOS      root myserver     cd  var  root myserver   var  touch swap img  root myserver   var  chmod 600 swap img  root myserver   var  mkswap  var swap img   root myserver   var  dd if  dev zero of  var swap img bs 4096k count 1000  root myserver   var  mkswap  var swap img   root myserver   var  swapon  var swap img   you can increase your swap memory by changin bs  1024k or 2048k or 8096k depending on your physical volume size  use  swapon  and swapoff commands to see the difference   check  swappiness   60 should do good    cat  proc sys vm swappiness

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For those who use Laravel Homestead Write this on Homestead yaml variables      - key  COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT       value  -1

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When you run composer update  the OS will look into the configured paths and try to locate an executable file with that name   When running php composer update  the composer string is treated as a parameter to PHP  which is not searched in any paths  You have to provide the full path in order to run it   Running which composer will tell you where the OS finds the composer executable  and then you simply use the full path in the PHP command     gt which composer  usr local bin composer    gt php -d memory limit 512M  usr local bin composer update       Note that 512MB might be too few  My perception is that it will happily take 1GB or more  depending on the number of dependencies you use and the variety of versions that you theoretically allow  i e  if you allow Symfony  2 3  then you make Composer deal with a lot more possible versions compared to using  2 7   Also note that running Composer on the production machine is not the best idea  You would have to have access to Github  maybe provide access credentials  have VCS tools installed  and you will easily break your site if any of the remote hosting servers is offline during your update  It is a better idea to use Composer on a deployment system that does all the preparation  and then moves all the files onto the production server   Update  It s the year 2020 now  and the way Composer manages its memory has changed quite a bit  The most important thing is that Composer will increase the memory limit by itself if it encounters a limit set too low  This however immediately triggers the problem of running out of memory on machines that have too few memory installed  You can make Composer use less memory by setting the environment variable like COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 512M  but this will create problems if Composer would need more memory to correctly operate   My main point remains true  Do not run Composer on machines that have too few memory installed  You potentially need 1 5 GB of free memory to be able to update everything

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Go to your php ini file set memory limit   -1

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How large is your aws server  If it only has 1gb of ram  setting the memory limit of 2gb in php ini won t help   If you can t don t want to also increase the server side to get more RAM available  you can enable SWAP as well   See here for how to enable swap  It enables 4gb  although I typically only do 1GB myself   Source  Got from laracast site

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Set it to use as much memory as it wants with   COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT -1 composer update

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On MAC OS High Siera I ran the below   MacBook-Pro asiu jack  php --ini   Returned   Configuration File  php ini  Path   usr local etc php 7 4 Loaded Configuration File           usr local etc php 7 4 php ini Scan for additional  ini files in   usr local etc php 7 4 conf d Additional  ini files parsed        usr local etc php 7 4 conf d ext-  opcache ini   usr local etc php 7 4 conf d php-memory-limits ini   All answers above are setting the loaded config which does update  but notice additional  ini files parsed has php-memory-limits ini as a separate file   You have to update this file memeory limit as well   same way open in text editor and change to somehting like 2G   The output on memory limit failure should tell you how much memory it needs to run  just set it to higher than that or -1 for unlimited

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I made this on Windows 10 and worked with me  php -d memory limit -1 C  ProgramData ComposerSetup bin composer phar update  You can change xx Value that you want  memory limit XX

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This error can occur especially when you are updating large libraries or libraries with a lot of dependencies  Composer can be quite memory hungry   Be sure that your composer itself is updated to the latest version   php composer phar --self-update   You can increase the memory limit for composer temporarily by adding the composer memory limit environment variable   COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 128MB php composer phar update   Use the format    128M    for megabyte or    2G    for gigabyte  You can use the value    -1    to ignore the memory limit completely   Another way would be to increase the PHP memory limit   php -d memory limit 512M composer phar update

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You can change the memory limit value in your php ini  Try increasing the limit in your php ini file  Use -1 for unlimited or define an explicit value like 2G  memory limit   -1      Note  Composer internally increases the memory limit to 1 5G    Read the documentation getcomposer org

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In Windows 10  Git bash   i had to use this php -d memory limit -1 C   composer  composer phar install

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I m running Laravel 6 with Homestead and also ran into this problem  As suggested here in the other answers you can prefix COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT -1 to a single command and run the command normally  If you d like to update your PHP config to always allow unlimited memory follow these steps  vagrant up vagrant ssh php --version   7 4 php --ini   Shows path to the php ini file that s loaded cd  etc php 7 4 cli   your PHP version  Each PHP version has a folder sudo vi php ini  Add memory limit -1 to your php ini file  If you re having trouble using Vim or making edits to the php ini file check this answer about how to edit the php ini file with Vim  The file should look something like this    Maximum amount of memory a script may consume   http   php net memory-limit memory limit   -1  Note that this could eat up infinite amount of memory on your machine  Probably not a good idea for production lol  With Laravel Valet had to follow this article and update the memory value here  sudo vi  usr local etc php 7 4 conf d php-memory-limits ini  Then restart the server with Valet  valet restart  This answer was also helpful for changing the config with Laravel Valet on Mac so the changes take effect

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For Laravel Step 1  Open your terminal step 2  cd into your laravel directory step 3  Type the command which composer  in your laravel directory and note the directory in which composer resides  step 4  run the command php -d memory limit -1  opt cpanel bin composer update  you can also run the code if it works for you   change  opt cpanel bin composer to the directory path returned in step 3   Problem solved

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In my case it needed higher permissions along with this memory limit increase  sudo COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 2G php  opt bitnami php bin composer phar update

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In my case none of the answers helped  Finally it turned out  that changing to a 64 bit version of PHP  M  Windows  fixed the problem immediately  I did not change any settings - it just worked

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The best solution for me is COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT -1 composer require  lt package-name gt   mentioned by  realtebo

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I am facing problems with composer because it consumes all the available memory  and then  the process get killed   actualy  the output message is  Killed    So  I was looking for a solution to limit composer memory usage   I tried   from  Sven answers      php -d memory limit 512M  usr local bin composer update   But it didn t work because       Composer internally increases the memory limit to 1 5G     -  Thats from composer oficial website   Then I found a command that works       COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT 512M php composer phar update   Althought  in my case 512mb is not enough    Source   https   www agileana com blog composer-memory-limit-troubleshooting

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lt C   gt set COMPOSER MEMORY LIMIT -1  lt C   gt composer install exhausted packages

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