Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted in Laravel

Question

You can try editing /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini:

; Old Limit
; memory_limit = 512M

; New Limit
memory_limit = 2048M

You may need to restart nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

You may also have an infinite loop somewhere. Can you post the code you're calling?

It is happened to me with laravel 5.1 on php-7 when I was running bunch of unitests.

The solution was - to change memory_limit in php.ini but it should be correct one. So you need one responsible for server, located there:

/etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini

so you need a line with

 memory_limit

After that you need to restart php service

sudo service php7.0-fpm restart

to check if it was changed successfully I used command line to run this:

 php -i

the report contained following line

memory_limit => 2048M => 2048M

Now test cases are fine.

I realize there is an accepted answer, and apparently it was either the size of memory chosen or the infinite loop suggestion that solved the issue for the OP.

For me, I added an array to the config file earlier and made some other changes prior to running artisan and getting the out of memory error and no amount of increasing memory helped. What it turned out to be was a missing comma after the array I added to the config file.

I am adding this answer in hopes that it helps someone else figure out what might be causing out of memory error. I am using laravel 5.4 under MAMP.

This problem occurred to me when using nested try- catch and using the $ex->getPrevious() function for logging exception .mabye your code has endless loop. So you first need to check the code and increase the size of the memory if necessary

 try {
        //get latest product data and latest stock from api
        $latestStocksInfo = Product::getLatestProductWithStockFromApi();
    } catch (\Exception $error) {
        try {
            $latestStocksInfo = Product::getLatestProductWithStockFromDb();
        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
            /*log exception */
            Log::channel('report')->error(['message'=>$ex->getMessage(),'file'=>$ex->getFile(),'line'=>$ex->getLine(),'Previous'=>$ex->getPrevious()]);///------------->>>>>>>> this problem when use 
            Log::channel('report')->error(['message'=>$ex->getMessage(),'file'=>$ex->getFile(),'line'=>$ex->getLine()]);///------------->>>>>>>> this code is ok 
        }
        Log::channel('report')->error(['message'=>$error->getMessage(),'file'=>$error->getFile(),'line'=>$error->getLine()]);

        /***log exception ***/
    }

Share the lines of code executed when you make this request. There might be an error in your code.

Also, you can change the memory limit in your php.ini file via the memory_limit setting. Try doubling your memory to 64M. If this doesn't work you can try doubling it again, but I'd bet the problem is in your code.

ini_set('memory_limit', '64M');