[SOLVED] Occ command; PHP Fatal error, Allowed memory size of XXX bytes exhausted

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@fab06 i’m doing this with success:
sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php -f cron.php

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where are you execute this command ? on your container docker Netxcloud ?
Regards,

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correct…this is my whole command, but i’m using this as a CronJob which isn’t relevant to you.

the big thing is making that env var, PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT, available to the www-data user:

kubectl exec -i $(kubectl get pods -o custom-columns=:metadata.name -n nextcloud) -n nextcloud -- sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php -f cron.php

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root@3:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php -f cron.php
root@3:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php ./occ
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2097152 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 438272 bytes)

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yah, you didn’t pass the env var for the 2nd command, sudo -u www-data php ./occ…but you can see it worked for the 1st command:

sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php -f cron.php

enjoy
:slight_smile:

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root@f9df223e7483:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php ./occ upgrade
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2097152 bytes exhausted

the same error

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dude…you’re not passing the env var.

sudo -u www-data php ./occ upgrade
^ do you see PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M anywhere in there?

sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php ./occ upgrade
^ try this and it’ll work.

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On my container Netxcloud :
Container details

PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT= -1
PHP_UPLOAD_LIMIT= -1
NEXTCLOUD_VERSION = 21.0.0
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sure, you can pass PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 too and it’ll work. the issue you’re having is that you’re not passing that as the www-data user.

the issue with the docker image is that PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT isn’t available to the www-data user’s env. what you showed above is probably available to the root user, but not to www-data.

my previous response of passing the env var of PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT each time when you run a command will solve your problems.

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i do this :

  1. root@NAS01:/# docker exec -it nextcloud_nextcloud_1 bash
    root@f9df223e7483:/var/www/html# su - www-data -s /bin/bash -c ‘php -d memory_limit=-1 -f /var/www/html/cron.php’
  2. root@f9df223e7483:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data php ./occ upgrade
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2097152 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 438272 bytes)
    It doesnt work
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hehe…dude. i explained everything above. i’ll reiterate myself a final time.

are you passing PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT anywhere in the command you ran above?

sudo -u www-data php ./occ upgrade

because as far as i can see…you’re not.

if you do:

sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php ./occ upgrade

it should work, like so:

root@nextcloud-754899b6f9-6zs8c:/var/www/html# sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php ./occ upgrade
Nextcloud is already latest version

g’luck :wave:

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dude, thanks a lot, everything is good witj the last command :
sudo -u www-data PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512M php ./occ upgrade
Very good job man

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Thanks for your help, it worked!

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This is what fixed it for me, the -d memory_limit=-1

me@server:/var/www/nextcloud$ sudo -u www-data php -d memory_limit=512M ./cron.php

or actually what I was initially after …

me@server:/var/www/nextcloud$ sudo -u www-data php -d memory_limit=-1 ./occ db:add-missing-indices

A very frustrating experience. Now to deal with the “A background job is pending that checks for user imported SSL certificates” problem

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Hei Hei,

i have the same issues and even after switching to redis i can not run anny occ command and the cron.php is also not working.

My NextCloud instance is runnig plain with apache and php7.4. No Docker or Nginx involved.

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Thanks, it was really helpful

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Thanks ! I don’t have good memories of the web updater on a big installation, thanks to you I managed to use occ.

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Thank u sooo much!
It helped me to run occ again.

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Thanks. This saved me after my upgrade from 20.0.8 to 21.0.1

After the upgrade any command I executed or the scheduled cron job Nextcloud runs was consuming all memory and swap on the server. i couldn’t even put the server in maintenance mode.

I was missing apc.enable_cli=1 in /etc/php/7.4/cli/conf.d/20-apcu.ini although I had APCu enabled in my config.php

I put this in and then restarted apache.

Now I can put the server in maintenance and look at the other issues.

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I had a similar problem.

System:
Vmware VM with CentOS 8
PHP 7.3
apache 2.4

Problem:
Upgrade from 20.0.8 to 21.0.1 did not work

Detail:
sudo -u apache php /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar
worked until:
Should the “occ upgrade” command be executed? [Y/n] Y
then:
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1073741824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php on line 133

The same with any other occ command. (which worked before the interrupted upgrade)

The above proposed work arounds like -d memory_limit=512M or -1 did not work for me.

Reason:
in nextclouds config.php where set:
‘debug’ => ‘true’,
‘loglevel’ => 0,

Solution
just set these variables to:
‘debug’ => ‘false’,
‘loglevel’ => 2,

Run “sudo -u apache php /var/www/nextcloud/occ upgrade” again.

Upgrade was successful !

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