Composer Update failed — out of memory

Question

I got this error when running composer.phar update on my VM:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1073741824 bytes exhausted (tried t

Answer 1

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update --no-scripts

memory_limit=-1 is for unlimited memory for this process when you add php before the composer for unlimited memory then you have to give composer complete path where its installed on server (for ubntu) its /usr/local/bin/composer Reamining part is just compoer commands update/install