Hello!
I’m running a simple instance on DigitalOcean with 512MB of RAM. So, what happens is when I try to update composer to install a new dependency on my symfony2 project, the composer got killed. Why? Well.. composer is always starving and his food is RAM memory. Yeah, it’s a ram memory destroyer. So, let’s fix this creating an extra 1GB Swapfile because we have 20GB of storage in our instance!
1) Let’s check how many available space we have in our root partition / (In my case 16GB)
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 20G 2.8G 16G 15% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 235M 4.0K 235M 1% /dev
tmpfs 50M 360K 49M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 246M 0 246M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
2) Now, let’s create an empty 1GB file on / with the name swapfile
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.57631 s, 235 MB/s
3) If everything ran well, we have 1GB less on our / partition. Let’s verify?
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 20G 3.8G 15G 21% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 235M 4.0K 235M 1% /dev
tmpfs 50M 360K 49M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 246M 0 246M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
3) Yeah! Now, let’s change from a single and normal file to a swap file! And then add on /etc/fstab to make it automatically started when boot the server.
sudo mkswap /swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB no label, UUID=a418b9f4-c4fc-4d8f-87ff-d924e33203cf
sudo swapon /swapfile echo 'echo "/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab' | sudo sh
4) We can confirm that we have a new swap with 1024GB:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 490 483 6 50 2 298
-/+ buffers/cache: 182 307
Swap: 1023 0 1023
Now we can run our php composer.phar update with no “Killed” messages!
See ya!
Rodolfo
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