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Why am I getting composer memory errors installing a 32 KB module? – CPanel

I’ve upgraded a website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
I did the configuration locally using ddev, using composer to install modules etc.

The site is now uploaded to our shared web host, which has a limit of 2 GB RAM.
I’m running into errors when I try and use composer to install new modules or perform upgrades

Composer require drupal/entity_delete
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2147483648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 223

Our database is only 40 MB and file system is 400 MB and entity_delete is 32 KB so I’m trying to understand why Drupal needs over 2 GB of RAM and if there is a way to resolve this?
(without having to perform all the updates locally each time.)

Mark

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  1. 0

    You need to increase the memory_limit to avoid this

    Try COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require drupal/entity_delete for a one shot run with no memory limit

    See https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors for more explanations.

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  2. 0

    Drupal is fine, it is Composer — If you can avoid doing composer require or composer update on the host and instead do that in a development environment; that would be the way to go. Then you take the updated composer.lock and simply run composer install on your host and that would be much less memory intensive.

    Otherwise; I had a similar issue and ended up enabling swap memory so that I could do that on a host that only has 512MB of memory (Runs Drupal 9 fine).

    How to do that would depend on your host operating system but look up on how to do that if you wish.

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