Memory error when installing sulu-minimal via Composer

[joeyaurel]

Q	A
Bug?	yes
New Feature?	no
Sulu Version	1.6.22 of sulu-minimal
Browser Version	Console

Actual Behavior

When installing sulu-minimal over the console via Composer I get a memory error:

Installing sulu/sulu-minimal (1.6.22)
  - Installing sulu/sulu-minimal (1.6.22): Loading from cache
Created project in sulutest
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 67108864 bytes) in phar:///usr/lib/plesk-9.0/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 67108864 bytes) in phar:///usr/lib/plesk-9.0/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Solver.php on line 220

Check https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors for more info on how to handle out of memory errors.

Expected Behavior

Should install correctly and without a memory leak.

Steps to Reproduce

• Debian 8.11
• Plesk Onyx 17.8.11 Update Nr. 27
• PHP version: 7.2.11 (CLI)
• Composer version: 1.7.2

Also reproduced on local machine:

• macOS 10.12.6
• PHP version: 7.2.7 (CLI)
• Composer version: 1.7.2

Possible Solutions

Editing the locally stored php.ini of the corresponding PHP version, but Composer installation shouldn't run into a memory problem.

[alexander-schranz]

Hello @nickreynke,

this is no error of sulu please have a look at composer troubleshooting else you think composer have an error provide a issue there.

[joeyaurel]

Okay, running PHP with -d memory_limit=-1 did the job. Thank you!