# Encountered an error

**URL:** <https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/encountered-an-error/2305>\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/encountered-an-error/2305 "2021-03-22T05:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![chandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@chandra](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/chandra)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/encountered-an-error/2305/1 "2021-03-22T05:24:09Z")

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While try to run DBT models in my local machine , i got the below  
 ![image (1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/getdbt/original/1X/fe9930c968833e024bab9b920484c8bdef52eebb.png)

Previously it is working without any issue. Now, i got the error.

Without any hint in the error. So, i check the log file it as

2021-03-18 09:43:50.005246 (MainThread): Sending event: {‘category’: ‘dbt’, ‘action’: ‘invocation’, ‘label’: ‘end’, ‘context’: [\<snowplow\_tracker.self\_describing\_json.SelfDescribingJson object at 0x480C32B0\>, \<snowplow\_tracker.self\_describing\_json.SelfDescribingJson object at 0x480C3850\>, \<snowplow\_tracker.self\_describing\_json.SelfDescribingJson object at 0x45B4FF40\>]}  
2021-03-18 09:43:50.005246 (MainThread): Flushing usage events  
2021-03-18 09:43:51.846732 (MainThread): Encountered an error:  
2021-03-18 09:43:51.846732 (MainThread):  
2021-03-18 09:43:51.946844 (MainThread): Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\main.py”, line 124, in main  
results, succeeded = handle\_and\_check(args)  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\main.py”, line 202, in handle\_and\_check  
task, res = run\_from\_args(parsed)  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\main.py”, line 255, in run\_from\_args  
results = task.run()  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\task\runnable.py”, line 399, in run  
self.\_runtime\_initialize()  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\task\runnable.py”, line 118, in \_runtime\_initialize  
super().\_runtime\_initialize()  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\task\runnable.py”, line 78, in _runtime\_initialize  
self.load\_manifest()  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\task\runnable.py”, line 66, in load\_manifest  
self.write\_manifest()  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\task\runnable.py”, line 62, in write\_manifest  
self.manifest.write(path)  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\contracts\graph\manifest.py”, line 762, in write  
self.writable\_manifest().write(path)  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\contracts\util.py”, line 51, in write  
write\_json(path, self.to\_dict(omit\_none=omit\_none)) # type: ignore  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\dbt\clients\system.py”, line 170, in write\_json  
return write\_file(path, json.dumps(data, cls=dbt.utils.JSONEncoder))  
File "c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\json\_init_.py", line 234, in dumps  
return cls(  
File “c:\users\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\json\encoder.py”, line 202, in encode  
return ‘’.join(chunks)  
MemoryError