Composer killed while updating

Question

I got a problem, I tried to install a new package to my Laravel 4 project. But when I run php composer.phar update I get this:

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Answer 1

Solved on Laravel/Homestead (Vagrant Windows)

1. Edit Homestead.yaml and increase memory from 2048 to 4096

2. vagrant up

3. vagrant ssh

4. Install Symfony with this line on the folder you choose (must be without files)

   COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton . -s dev
   

Answer 2

Fix for AWS ec2 Ubuntu Server Php Memory Value Upgrade For Magento 2.3.X

• Php 7.2 / 7.3
• nginx
• ubuntu
• composer 1.X
• mariaDB
• magento 2.3.X

Error : Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Killed for

1. Ram Must at least 4GB
2. Change instance type to suitable or Upgrade Ram
3. Php Memory Value change
4. Server Restart
5. Try to install the same package again

PHP value update may locate under '/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini' depend on your server and PHP fpm X.XX version

Using Seed command 'change as your server requires' on my case >> /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini

memory limit type as "3.5G" or "3500MB" Php 7.2.X

sudo sed -i "s/memory_limit = .*/memory_limit = 3.5G/" /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
  

Php 7.3.X

  sudo sed -i "s/memory_limit = .*/memory_limit = 3.5G/" /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini

Test if applied on 'free -h' command

    free -h

Install-Package Again#

Install extension via Composer

go to your Magento 2 installation directory

cd /var/www/html/

with 'superuser' privileges

sudo su

Start installation

composer require XXXXXX/XXXXXXX

Enable Module s

php bin/magento module:enable XXXXXX/XXXXXXX


php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Restart

sudo reboot

Enjioy

Answer 3

DigitalOcean fix that does not require extra memory - activating swap, here is an example for 1gb:

in terminal run below

/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

The above solution will work until the next reboot, after that the swap would have to be reactivated. To persist it between the reboots add the swap file to fstab:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

open the above file add add below line to the file

/var/swap.1 swap swap sw 0 0

now restart the server. Composer require works fine.

Answer 4

php -d memory_limit=5G composer.phar update