PHP Composer update “cannot allocate memory” error (using Laravel 4)

Question

I just can\'t solve this one.

I\'m on Linode 1G RAM basic plan. Trying to install a package via Composer and it\'s not letting me. My memory limit is set to \"-1\" o

Answer 1

Try

it's basically raising the swap memory

sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024 && sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1 && sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

Answer 2

Make a swap and run composer command again. I hope it'll work for you.

 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k
 $ mkswap /swapfile
 $ swapon /swapfile
 $ echo "/swapfile       none    swap    sw      0       0 " >> /etc/fstab
 $ echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
 $ chown root:root /swapfile
 $ chmod 0600 /swapfile