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}
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