Composer running out of memory on every project, Mac OS X

Question

I attempted to install aws/aws-sdk-php yesterday on one of my Laravel 4 projects using Composer, I cannot remember exactly the chain of events but it did not in

Answer 1

If you're having 8 GB of Ram or more, then you can surely increase the PHP memory_limit to 1 GB or else to 512MB. On your Mac open terminal-

1. Find the PHP memory limit config file.

php --ini

2. Edit the php-memory-limits.ini file.

nano /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d/php-memory-limits.ini

3. Increase Memory limit to 1 GB

memory_limit = 1G

4. Verify if the Memory limit increased or not.

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

5. Restart PHP service.

brew services restart php

And done. Increasing the memory limit also reduces a little bit of composer update completion time, which is good.

If you wanna speed up composer update time. Try installing the popular - Prestissimo package.

Answer 2

Easy, type this commands:

rm -rf vendor/

rm -rf composer.lock

php composer install --prefer-dist

Should work for low memory machines or others memory problems

Answer 3

I ran into this too but I use brew.

composer --version
brew info composer
brew upgrade composer
...
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
composer 1.9.0 -> 1.9.2
==> Upgrading composer 
...

which still did not fix my composer require drupal/environment_indicator

Using the php memory limit mentioned by others fixed this finally.

php -d memory_limit=-1 `which composer` require drupal/environment_indicator