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

Question

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

Answer 1

To get the current memory_limit value, run:

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

Try increasing the limit in your php.ini file (ex. /etc/php5/cli/php.ini for Debian-like systems):

; Use -1 for unlimited or define an explicit value like 2G
memory_limit = -1

Or, you can increase the limit with a command-line argument:

php -d memory_limit=-1 composer.phar require hwi/oauth-bundle php-http/guzzle6-adapter php-http/httplug-bundle

To get loaded php.ini files location try:

php --ini

Another quick solution:

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

Or just:

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

Answer 2

In my case I was trying to require this package when I got this error.

You can run like this, and you don't have to update the PHP INI file:

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require huddledigital/zendesk-laravel

Answer 3

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 <...>

Answer 4

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)