I’m working on a Laravel-based project and recently encountered the error: Allowed memory size of 2147483648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes). The application generally uses about 150-200 MB of memory but suddenly exceeds 2 GB and crashes. I have not observed any infinite loops or similar issues. Below, I’m sharing a detailed excerpt of the logs tracking the memory usage. I don’t want to increase the memory limit since the overall usage is quite low. If anyone has experience with this or a solution, I would appreciate your help.
Log Records:
[2025-07-18 07:39:50] local.DEBUG: Memory usage at start {"memory":270532608}
[2025-07-18 07:39:52] local.DEBUG: Memory usage at DB::commit and end {"memory":270532608}
--- 270mb and creation process finishes, then goes to listing route starting at 167mb
[2025-07-18 07:39:59] local.DEBUG: Memory usage at index {"memory":167772160}
[2025-07-18 07:39:59] local.DEBUG: Memory usage at return with data {"memory":167772160}
----- Suddenly exceeds 2 GB and crashes when returning view.
[2025-07-18 07:40:05] local.ERROR: Allowed memory size of 2147483648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) {"userId":1,"exception":"[object] (Symfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Error\FatalError(code: 0): Allowed memory size of 2147483648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) at D:\ServBay\www\xxxxxxxx\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions.php:73) [stacktrace] #0 {main} }
You need to analyze what is going on in your code when memory consumption is increasing.
Post your view file maybe.
local.DEBUG: Memory usage at data {"memory":167772160} ----- Suddenly exceeds 2 GB and crashes when returning view.
This brings a thought - maybe your "data" is too large while you put it all in memory? What is it and what you're doing with it?
You have a recursive loop somewhere.
Maybe two blade files include each other?
recursive , if you are using services may be you call two different services in each other, and this is incorrect as only one depends on the other
I am using Astrotomic/Translatable package, and the locale value was being saved as "EN" instead of "en" for example. I’m not sure how this caused the error, but I fixed it by using the lowercase format. Thank you.
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