Allowed Memory Size Exceeded...

How many queries are you executing in total? You might try disabling the query logging, which can use a lot of memory especially during processes where tons of queries are being generated.

DB::disableQueryLog();

// run your other queries...

@Cronix The seeder is running 3 writes (creating 3 users with just a name, email and password). I'll disable logging and see if anything changes, but it seems a bit odd either way for just 3 small queries haha.

I have another Laravel project running in the same environment (I believe it's Laravel 5.5), and it's able to seed a lot more data without any issues.

Think it could be a bug in a recent update to 5.6?

Update: Tried disabling query logging with no luck - still getting the same error.

I don't know if it's a bug. I'm not using laravel 5.6 yet. I just know when I was running tens of thousands (yes) of queries in a long running job pulling a lot of data from an api, I could see the memory usage grow and grow on each pass until it exceeded the memory. When I disabled query logging, it consumed no more than 6M in total even after running for hours. Yeah it won't do much, if anything, on just a few queries.

You'd probably need to post your code to be able to figure out what's going on.

There's not a whole lot to see yet haha. And I haven't messed with my user model a whole lot (aka, there wouldn't be anything out of the norm that would cause problems when creating users).

Here we go:

// DatabaseSeeder.php 
public function run()
{
    $this->run(UserSeeder::class);
    $this->run(PolicySeeder::class);
}

// UserSeeder.php
public function run()
{
    DB::disableQueryLog();

  // Admin
  User::create([
    'name' => 'Admin User',
    'email' => '[email protected]',
    'password' => bcrypt('secret')
  ]);

  // Normal User
  User::create([
    'name' => 'Normal User',
    'email' => '[email protected]',
    'password' => bcrypt('secret')
  ]);

  // Denied User
  User::create([
    'name' => 'Denied User',
    'email' => '[email protected]',
    'password' => bcrypt('secret')
  ]);
}

It never makes it past the UserSeeder, even when I comment out all of the code in the "run" method. Tried doing the same for PolicySeeder, same result.

You've created an infinite loop. I'm guessing your database is loaded with users.

Change

$this->run(UserSeeder::class);

inside DatabaseSeeder.php to

$this->call(UserSeeder::class);

and do the same for PolicySeeder

@bwrice Heh. Sometimes the tiniest things hold you up. Thanks for pointing that out!