Getting Allowed memory size error on sample data deployment magento2

Question

I am Trying to install sample data on xampp server using below command php bin/magento sampledata:deploy And i am getting error like this

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\magento v2.0\vendor\composer\composer\src\Composer\ Json\Json File.php on line 259

can any one help me?

• Y Stroli: You might need to add RAM to your server.
• Y Stroli: You might need to add RAM to your server.

Answer 1

There are 2 solution for that:

Option 1 - Permanent Solution

change php.ini to increase memory_limit value on global level

memory_limit = 768M

Or You can also change in .htaccess file.

php_value memory_limit 768M
php_value max_execution_time 18000

Option 2 - Temporary Solution

quick solution add memory size in the command :

php -dmemory_limit=768M php bin/magento sampledata:deploy

change 768M to what you want

• Alam Zaib: last command: php -dmemory_limit=768M && php bin/magento sampledata:deploy

Answer 2

php -d memory_limit=-1 bin/magento sampledata:deploy

Answer 3

$ php --ini

Loaded Configuration File: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.8/conf/php.ini

$ nano /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.8/conf/php.ini

change the memory_limit there and that's it!