Laravel DB Insert Error: Allowed Memory Size Exhausted

Question

I\'m running into an issue when trying to insert ~20K records into my DB. I notice that even though I\'m echoing inside my foreach loop, I\'m not getting anything outputted

Answer 1

The accepted answer is fixing the symptom rather then the problem. The problem is the Laravel query log (in memory) is eating all your RAM when you execute such a large # of queries. See the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18776710/221745

Or, in brief, turn off query logging via:

DB::disableQueryLog()

Before executing 20k queries

Answer 2

This error depicts that your PHP script has exhausted memory limit due to insufficient memory allocated for script.

You need to increase memory_limit using the ini_set function e.g ini_set('memory_limit','128M');