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Hello, Where can I add something in my Homestead.yaml which can set the memory limit to a specific value?
What do you mean memory limit? The limit of the vagrant box itself?
If that is the case you should be able to edit your Homestead.yaml and update the following line
memory: 2048
cpus: 2
Original file: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/master/Homestead.yaml.example#L3
It should be at the very top of the Homestead.yaml file. Here's the default, with a 2048 (MB) setting for memory: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/master/resources/Homestead.yaml
When trying to run a composer install we're getting a PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 134217736 bytes). To resolve this is it best to up the memory limit in Homestead's php.ini file versus the memory on the Homestead box?
$ vagrant ssh
$ vi /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini
This is in our php.ini:
; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 512M
And we have this in Homestead.yaml (default):
memory: 2048
Don't you have any solution?
COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer update
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