Fix “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted (tried to allocate X bytes)” with composer update

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I got this error today when running composer update for one of my Symfony2 projects:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3781182 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/RemoteFilesystem.php on line 202

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Composers troubleshooting tells that you can increase the memory PHP can allocate editing memory_limit parameter in php.ini. I changed it from 128M to 512M but still didn’t work.

Finally the solution was to run composer update with no memory limit this way:

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update
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  1. karol %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p

    Do you know how to change it in capifony deploy script?

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