[php] Composer require runs out of memory. PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted

I am trying to add HWIOAuthBundle to my project by running the below command.

composer require hwi/oauth-bundle php-http/guzzle6-adapter php-http/httplug-bundle

HWIOAuthBundle github: https://github.com/hwi/HWIOAuthBundle

When I try to run composer require I am getting the out of memory error.

Using version ^0.6.0@dev for hwi/oauth-bundle Using version ^1.2@dev for php-http/guzzle6-adapter Using version ^1.10@dev for php-http/httplug-bundle ./composer.json has been updated Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 67108864 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.4.2/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 67108864 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.4.2/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

I tried setting the memory_limit to 2G in my php.ini file but did not work. I found my php.ini by running php -i | grep php.ini

what about windows?

i use windows 10 and this command worked for me,

php -d memory_limit=-1 "C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar" update

You can use a specific php Version when running Composer

If, like me, for some reason, you are using PHP 32 bits even though your computer is 64 bits, this will always limit the amount of memory allocated to Composer. I solved my problem this way:

• Install a 64 bits php version somewhere on your computer (let's say in C:/php64)
• In composer (using cygwin in my case), run:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 C:/php64/php.exe ../composer.phar update

On Mac php 7.4

run

php --ini

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

If Additional .ini files parsed: memory_limit needs to be changed in

/usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d/php-memory-limits.ini

As Jose Seie writes, set memory to

memory_limit = -1 or memory_limit = 1G

On Windows 10;

Goto C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin

Edit: composer.bat and add memory_limit=-1 in the last line as shown below.

@echo OFF
:: in case DelayedExpansion is on and a path contains ! 
setlocal DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
php -d memory_limit=-1 "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

Problem solved ;)

In my case:

Windows 10 and Docker Desktop works:

docker-compose -f .docker/docker-compose.yml exec php env COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require fideloper/proxy

Here is another way to solve this problem under windows, if you use Wampserver. Indeed at the level of wampserver, there are two php.ini files, that of PHP, which one can find in the location C: \ wamp64 \ bin \ php \ phpx.xx \ php.ini and that of Apache , which can be found at location C: \ wamp64 \ bin \ apache \ apachex.xx \ bin \ php.ini. Both of these files have the memory_limit parameter. So to be sure to solve this problem, it is better to set the memory_limit = -1 parameter in both files at once.

Since none of the previous answers included set it took me a bit to figure out how to do it in Windows without altering the php.ini, but here's what worked for me:

set COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1
composer require hwi/oauth-bundle php-http/guzzle6-adapter php-http/httplug-bundle

I solved this problem using this command COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1

Example: COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer requires larval/ui

in windows by xampp i just changed:

;memory_limit=512M 

in php.ini to:

memory_limit =-1

then restart the Apache by xampp

this is the result:

; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit =-1
;memory_limit=512M

Composer 2.0 preview is available now: https://github.com/composer/composer/releases Fixed issue for me. You can set up a preview with composer self-update --preview

EDIT: Composer 2 with memory tuning released

Just want to share my situation on this matter.

Problem context:

1. Running composer in a vagrant box.
2. Was getting this message after try to run composer require "laravel-doctrine/orm:~1.4.13":

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52 Check https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors for more info on how to handle out of memory errors.

3. Have tried setting php.ini memory limit to -1. (still not working).

Solution:

1. Apparently my composer.json and composer.lock has some issues. Ran $ composer validate, and the result was: "The lock file is not up to date with the latest changes in composer.json, it is recommended that you run composer update."

2. So I ran $ composer update, and all dependencies are resolved. Imho, when the dependencies has some issues, maybe the tree building is out of sync, hence the out of memory issue.

Hope this helps anyone out there.

I have bypassed the problem in a Homestead Laravel (vagrant) virtual machine running the composer commands preceded by COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1:

Examples

To update Composer:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer update

To install a package:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require spatie/laravel-translatable

Running composer dump-autoload solves it for me.

Just in case you get a composer error with:

Could not open input file: composer

run:

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer require ...

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52 Check https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors for more info on how to handle out of memory errors.

set memory_limit to -1 works for me ;) (vim /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini)

For Macbook: run command sudo nano ~/.bash_profile to edit bash_profile then add alias composer="COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer" in that file, then save and exit.

Hope this will solve the problem; Happy coding!

Just set the memory_limit specifying the full route of your composer.phar file and update, in my case with the command:

php -d memory_limit=-1 C:/wamp64/composer.phar update

In my case I was trying to require this package, and I was getting the PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of.

I found it easy to run like this and you don't have to update the PHP INI file.

example: COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require huddledigital/zendesk-laravel

Hope this help someone.

Sometimes the problem is in the composer memory limit. In my case, I tried increasing the php memory limit but still got the error. You can use COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 to get around that. Use it as a prefix:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require the/library

You have to prefix it again in the future.

Hope this helps.

I am using php7.2 and the size is set to memory_limit = 512M by default. to increase the size, you need to locate php.ini.

In Wamp, it is located in C:\wamp64\bin\php\php7.2.23\php.ini. Please watch out for the PHP version as it is the name folder, in my case I have php7.2.23

In Laragon, it is located in C:\laragon\bin\php\php-7.2.23-Win32-VC15-x64\php.ini as was in my case.

If you don't want to allow unlimited space, you can set whatever size that is convenient to you, in my case I did memory_limit = 2G

if you want to allow unlimited space, you can change to memory_limit = -1

Another solution from the manual:

Composer also respects a memory limit defined by the COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT environment variable:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer.phar <...>

Or in my case

export COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1
composer <...>

It was recently identified that Composer consumes high CPU + memory on packages that have a lot of historical tags. See composer/composer#7577

A workaround to this problem is using symfony/flex or https://github.com/rubenrua/symfony-clean-tags-composer-plugin

composer global require rubenrua/symfony-clean-tags-composer-plugin

For this error in macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur use this line:

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update --no-plugins

I used this line to update on Symfony 5. This command also worked with laravel 7.

Make sure to not require a package before making sure the vendor folder exists.

Check if you have done composer install before. You may be just cloned the repository to your machine. So, you have to install the old packages before requiring a new one. Or you may want to include this option --profile to your composer command to see the timing and memory usage information.

To override this and fix the issue on your local machine you can do the following changes within your php.ini configuration file.

1. To locate your php.ini configuration file you can use the following command: php --ini

After running this command you should see an output like the following:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3
Loaded Configuration File:         /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini <---- note the path
Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed:      /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/conf.d/ext-opcache.ini

The file we want to change is the Loaded Configuration.

2. Open and search for the memory_limit you can set the memory_limit = -1 to give an unlimited amount of memory to PHP processes or you can set 512MB, 1G, 2G, 5G,....

   $ nano /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini

locate and set:

$ memory_limit = -1 or memory_limit = 1G

3. After saving your file, you can verify the PHP changes by running this command which will output the current memory settings in your php.ini file:

   php -r "echo ini_get('memory_limit').PHP_EOL;"

NOTE: After saving, the new memory will be working. You don't need to do anything else.

More info: https://support.acquia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036102614-Overriding-memory-limits-during-local-development-with-Composer

go and find php.ini inside you PHP directory incase of xampp it will be inside xampp/PHP and inside php.ini file update memory_limit:512M to 2048M

Same problem, none of anything related to "memory_limit" worked, but..

composer self-update --2

..solved my problem. (upgrade: 1.10.17 -> 2.0.4)

For skipping memory limit and version error use the code below:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require <package-name> --ignore-platform-reqs

I condensed or packaged up the useful and accepted answer here into reusable (zsh) aliases/functions, for quicker and easier-to-remember reuse:

# composer high-memory
composermem() {
  php -r "echo ini_get('memory_limit').PHP_EOL;"
}
alias composerbig='COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer $1'

(php composer.phar is already aliased to composer on the system).