composer runs out of memory, cannot work around

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I'm trying to install dependencies for a PHP command line tool with composer (installed in cygwin), but it runs out of memory no matter what I do.

I've increased memory_limit in php.ini to 2G

I've tried running php -d memory_limit=2G composer.phar with

I've tried removing the limit altogether with php -d memory_limit=-1 composer.phar ...

It keeps thinking it only has 64M of RAM available to it: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 68681728) (tried to allocate 2147215 bytes)

This machine as 24GB of RAM.

Try expressing the value in megabytes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11885191/how-to-increase-memory-limit-for-php-over-2gb — dhinchliff, Jan 09 '18 at 14:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '18 at 13:55

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Thanks to matzeri, the 64-bit cygwin seems to have done the trick. Oddly, though, composer on 32-bit cygwin always ran out at only 64MB.

answered Jan 13 '18 at 13:55

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '18 at 05:26

I just ran into this issue and my guess is that it's some sort of bug in 32-bit cygwin's version of php. I ran a very simple test script that allocated memory at different sizes. When the allocation size is small, say less than 2MB, then I can allocate up to the memory_limit. When the allocation size is slightly larger, say 6MB or more, it fails.

composer runs out of memory, cannot work around

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