Fatal error "Allowed memory size" while run setup:static-content:deploy

Question

I am trying to setup Magento 2.0 (community) in a WAMP server and I am getting the error below all the time while I run the command for deploy the assets static due to symlink issues at Windows environments:

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in C:\wamp\www\magento\vendor\oyejorge\less.php\lib\Less\Visitor\processExtends.php on line 445

I have setup memory_limit as -1 (no limit) but this takes no changes. I don't know what else to do in this case since the issue goes beyond my PHP knowledge and setting that value to no limit should do the job unless I need to install something else to get this working. Any advices? Any workaround?

Answer 1

quick solution add memory size in the command :

php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

change 6G to what you want

• Steve Johnson: FWIW, we recommend 768M for normal use and 2G for testing. Your mileage might vary... example
• Scott: I have only a template installed and a single product, setting 2G still gets the memory error. Why is this damn thing so memory consuming?
• Jino: php -d memory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy . There should be a space after -d and before memory_limit

Answer 2

In dev mode I managed to solve this issue by running the following command: rm -rf pub/static/* var/di var/generation var/cache var/page_cache

Answer 3

Increase the memory limit to update .php.ini file

If you have access to your php.ini file or can create one in the root, you can globally increase your allocated memory.

;adjust memory limit
memory_limit = 6G
max_execution_time = 36000
max_input_time = 36000

If you not want to update .php.ini file then use below command

php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy