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

If you are still facing issues after updating your memory limit then the best thing to try is to run:

composer update --lock

This will update your lock file so that composer can run from it if you have changed your composer.json file.

You can now optimally run:

composer update

or

composer install