Grunt build - Running “concurrent:dist” (concurrent) task Killed

Question

For some reason, when doing a grunt build on my VM, it simply dies off in this way:

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Running \"concurrent:dist\" (concurrent) task
Killed
         


        

Answer 1

So, I just ran into this problem as well, and I believe it has to do, with as you suspect, the VM running out of memory (are you using a $5 Digital Ocean box too?). The concurrent process attempts to run compass, copy, imagemin, svgmin and html all at the same time, which probably causes the issue, so in my build, I just comment out the concurrent rule, and inserted the individual processes in below and it seems to complete. A little slower, but thats the cost of being a cheapskate :)

grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'clean:dist',
    'useminPrepare',
    //'concurrent:dist',
    'compass',
    'copy:styles',
    'imagemin',
    'svgmin',
    'htmlmin',
    'autoprefixer',
    'concat',
    'cssmin',
    'uglify',
    'modernizr',
    'copy:dist',
    'rev',
    'usemin'
]);