Cannot Allocate Memory

TorchPE

Hello,
When I try to install it kills itself or says it ran out of memory? I have only MySQL, Apache, and PHP installed along with Composer! I am running Ubuntu. Here is a quick video showing what is happening to me (sorry about my poor video making skills: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/nfgamermc-f0230.appspot.com/o/IMG_1496.MP4?alt=media&token=6027fabf-df7d-4ba6-9b34-765fd46aa2de

Zeokat

How much RAM has your server?

TorchPE

Zeokat I am running Ubuntu 16.10 x64 with 512MB of ram! This is for Flarum testing!

Zeokat

Maybe you are runing out of memory. Do you have swap memory?

To check swap use command sudo swapon -s and paste here the output.

Also... which VPS provider are you using?

TorchPE

Zeokat Maybe you are runing out of memory. Do you have swap memory?

To check swap use command sudo swapon -s and paste here the output.

Also... which VPS provider are you using?

As you can see it won't give me any information about the swap! Also I am using DigitalOcean

Zeokat

TorchPE Then you have to setup swap memory and try again with composer.

Here you go: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-16-04

TorchPE

Zeokat How much swapiness?

TorchPE

Okay, I will try that and reply within 2 hours

Zeokat

Personally i use 30. But this value is something that you adjust over time, to run test you can do it with default value 60.

Freddy

@Zeokat Horrible advice. Stop it!

@TorchPE If you HAVE to use SWAP, then use twice your RAM size, in your case, 1024MB, tho, SWAP is NOT recommended on DigitalOcean servers, they themselves highly recommend that you don't use SWAP as it deteriates the SSD drives.

512MB RAM is more then enough to run Flarum, something else is wrong on your system. I myself run 2 seperate NodeJS websites totalling 25,000 uniques per day on a single 512MB DigitalOcean instance without SWAP. You will be amazed by how much you can do with so "little".

First install htopapt-get install htop then run it htop

And let us know what htop is returning, your server has to be using resources outside what you mention to get a RAM issue with composer. Also, don't explain what errors you get with composer, copy paste the errors entirely.

PS: When logged in to your terminal, then prepending commands with sudo is not needed when you are logged in as the user root.

Zeokat

@Freddy no words, thanks for mentoring us. You made my day haha

TorchPE

I have installed htop and tried again but it still says it. Would that be because of swap? http://ibb.co/bvGkVk

Kyrne

TorchPE htop doesn't fix the problem. You need to run htop then tell us what it outputs so we can see what's using up your resources.

TorchPE

Kyrne Here is the htop, I ran the command after the error

http://ibb.co/jOqOGQ

Freddy

TorchPE :face_with_rolling_eyes: Your on an iPad? :face_with_rolling_eyes:

In theory you have plenty of RAM to install and run Flarum, tho, you use a bit more then expected to just run a Vanilla install without any traffic / active websites. Is this server running anything else atm?

Try

composer self-update

Then re-run the command you used to install Flarum, if it doesn't help, try a quick work-around so we don't have to debug your entire server by installing Flarum the following way.

git clone git@github.com:flarum/flarum.git .
composer install

TorchPE

Okay, now it is asking me to setup flarum with errors? Also I am only using an iPad because I don't want to boot my laptop.

Here is what it says: https://ibb.co/drUQD5

I installed gd and dom also I chmod the files

Freddy

You need to enable the modules you install

a2enmod php5-gd etc etc

The rest of the errors explains them selfes. Are you sure you should be doing this? But now it is working at least and your original problem is solved! Have fun and happy codin!

TorchPE

Freddy How do I make a database table prefix?

jordanjay29

TorchPE you just input the prefix you want on the installation page. It's not part of the database setup in MySQL. This is only really necessary if you have multiple applications in a single database (or multiple installs of Flarum).

Freddy

@TorchPE You enter absolutely ANYTHING in the prefix field during the install process. Most commonly used is probably flarum_

I would urge you to reconsider, the questions your asking is telling me that you have no business running a board in Alpha (Its not Beta even tho the devs claim it is) mode, your doomed to fail while the board is running just like your failing in the very simple installation process. If you think installing Flarum is hard, try upgrading and maintaining it.

Kyrne

Freddy always good to have someone to help, but I feel like you could have put that in a slightly more friendly way. Although you may know more than him about this, you are still equals.

TorchPE

Okay, sorry for your time.