Best way to increase memory limit for local php/drush

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What is the best way to give a local php (together with drush for a drupal 8) more memory. Its not necessary for the web cgi/fast-cgi process itself, only for local admin tasks.

My solution was to copy your php.ini file from /usr/local/lib/php72/php.ini, set memory_limit and add an alias in my .bash_profile:

alias php='/usr/local/bin/php72 -c /home/beteigeuze/etc/php.ini'
alias drush='/usr/local/bin/php72 -c /home/beteigeuze/etc/php.ini /home/beteigeuze/bin/drush.phar'

is there an better solution?

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You can also try the -d option, with which you can define an INI entry:

$ php72 -i | grep memory_limit # default
memory_limit => 128M => 128M
$ php72 -d memory_limit=256M -i | grep memory_limit
memory_limit => 256M => 256M

Similarly, you can put that in an alias in your .bash_profile.

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answered 24 Oct '18, 15:39

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Answer 2

The solution is not 100% working for me. in our enviroment the drush process still does not honor the custom php / or custom memory limit and it complains still that it needs more than 128M. I belive that maybe the drush process itslef starts another php process which does not use the "bash settings", AFAIK.

The solution was to configure drush itself for more memory e.g. ini_set('memory_limit', '512M'); https://support.acquia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005311613-Increasing-the-memory-limit-for-Drush.

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