Composer: PHP Fatal error: Out of memory || Setting memory_limit doesn't work

Question

When I'm trying to install a new bundle with composer, I'm always running into this problem:

PHP Fatal error:  Out of memory (allocated 1690828800) (tried to allocate 268435456 bytes) in phar://C:/.../composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1690828800) (tried to allocate 268435456 bytes) in phar://C:/.../composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

I tried to raise the memory limit in php.ini and started a whole new project with fresh composer. I should have enough memory on my machine.

Update:

When encountering this problem, also bear in mind that if you change parameters in your PHP.ini, that you've to change them for your PHP CLI. I often forgot that and just changed the php.ini for the version my apache is using...

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/q/49994946/1334383 — pulzarraider, Aug 06 '18 at 15:16

pok_net · Answer 1 · 2018-08-22T21:08:07.707

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try
composer clear-cache
before
composer update

edited Aug 22 '18 at 21:08

answered Aug 22 '18 at 21:02

pok_net

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 12 '20 at 07:04

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COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 to update composer..

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 fixed the problem for me while updating/installing packages using composer

edited May 12 '20 at 07:04

Jaimil Patel

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answered May 12 '20 at 03:46

Sai

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '20 at 10:23

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This command solved my problem.

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer install

answered Mar 17 '20 at 10:23

Niyanta Bhayani

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saber tabatabaee yazdi · Answer 4 · 2020-08-24T07:05:48.860

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How you test Memory_limit ?

did you restart Apache?

please do the following steps:

with Xampp in Windows 10

just search this phrase: memory_limit

;memory_limit=512M

by commenting this configuration, in php.ini to:

memory_limit =-1

then restart the Apache by xampp

the result is:

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

edited Aug 24 '20 at 07:05

answered Aug 06 '20 at 08:51

saber tabatabaee yazdi

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 29 '17 at 08:04

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You can do php -d memory_limit=-1 /path/to/composer ... like explained in the doc.

answered Aug 29 '17 at 08:04

mykiwi

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already did that. Did it in the php.ini file as well as with the parameters. There's no othe result – Lukas Aug 29 '17 at 09:27

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 30 '17 at 01:11

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I had this error. My solution was to update the self composer $ php composer.phar self-update

answered Aug 30 '17 at 01:11

Andrey V.

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Did this as well. Was not helping :( Switched now from a windows machine to linux. No troubles anymore – Lukas Aug 30 '17 at 10:15
Could not open input file: composer.phar THIS error appeared when i type it in my command line in windows – saber tabatabaee yazdi Aug 04 '20 at 12:00

saber tabatabaee yazdi · Answer 7 · 2020-08-15T14:32:34.047

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in windows i used this commands:

php -d memory_limit=-1 C:\composer\composer.phar install

and

php C:\composer\composer.phar self-update

Updating to version 1.10.10 (stable channel).
Downloading (100%)

Use composer self-update --rollback to return to version 1.10.7

edited Aug 15 '20 at 14:32

answered Aug 04 '20 at 12:05

saber tabatabaee yazdi

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 14 '20 at 12:13

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Run COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer install instead of composer install. It worked for me.

answered Oct 14 '20 at 12:13

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Composer: PHP Fatal error: Out of memory || Setting memory_limit doesn't work

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