Magento 2 : Composer runs out of memory

Question

I am trying to install instamojo payment gateway to my magento2 store, as per the instructions givne by instamojo page https://docs.instamojo.com/page/instamojo-integeration-for-magento-2

i tried the command using CLI (ssh) at my ubuntu host

composer update instamojo/instamojo-magento-2

Loading composer repositories with package information

Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Killed

I searched Google and found that , it happens because composer runs out of memory, but how could i increase the memory at remote server (I am running the website on live server at Godaddy)

Is there any other way of doing this ??

Answer 1

Try this with more memory

php -d memory_limit=4G /usr/local/bin/composer update

OR

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update

Answer 2

you can try something like this too:

php -d memory_limit=512M /usr/local/bin/composer update

Where /usr/local/bin/composer is the path where your composer is installed. And 512M is yor memory limit.

• Amul Bhatia: php -d memory_limit=-1M /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update instamojo/instamojo-magento-2 i tried again, and got message "Killed

Answer 3

If composer runs out of memory, you'll have to increase memory limit for php , you can locate your php.ini by executing following command in your ssh terminal ;

 php -i | grep "Configuration File (php.ini) Path"

Open up the ini file , search and increase value for memory_limit until error resolves or you can set value to -1 to remove memory limit.

Note that you must restart apache/nginx service after your change php configuration.

EDIT :

Try following command ;

php -r "readfile('getcomposer.org/installer');"; | php

• Amul Bhatia: but its have shared hosting, cant restart server .. any idea ?
• Vivek Kumar: check edit and see if it works for you.
• Amul Bhatia: sorry, i just copied that command.. nothing worked error syntax error near unexpected token `|'
• Vivek Kumar: check out this question - stackoverflow.com/questions/36107400/…
• Amul Bhatia: php -d memory_limit=-1M /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update instamojo/instamojo-magento-2 i tried again, and got message "Killed"

Answer 4

Try below command:

php -d memory_limit=4G composer update