[image]How to completely uninstall / remove a plugin To remove a plugin, simply remove the - git clone https://github.com/... line from your app.yml file and rebuild your site via ./launcher rebuild app. I appreciate that, but rebuilding the app takes about 3 hours! And this is on a massive VPS. Wouldn’t it be a cool thing to be able to remove plugins just like we can add and remove themes? Perhaps something to consider as feature in future? Thanks!!

[image] Beda: The discourse requirements say it need 1gb ram! That is a bit… over positive. For testing purposes it can be enough, and it can be a little bit tight even then. 2GB is much closer to reality. 4 GB is enough for bigger instances, though. But amount and power of cores plays important role too. And still… if you have 5 GB and rebuilding takes that long time there must be something wrong. I’m on DigitalOcean/4 GB/2 intel vcpu and rebuilding takes something around 25 minutes. What is your system exacly, plus app.yml — is there something custom?

Hi, the only custom really is what I mentioned before (vfs instead of aufs/overaly) The rest is vanilla. Server: Server Total Memory: 4.657GiB, Kernel Version: 5.15.0-43-generic, Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 50GB SSD drive, 2.5 Cores, 5 Threads Intel® Xeon® CPUs yaml is original apart of these add-on plugins: discourse-assign discourse-chat discourse-checklist discourse-docs discourse-reactions discourse-solved discourse-surveys discourse-voting docker_manager styleguide

I don’t see from that data why rebuilding would take that long time. I would spin on same sized ubuntu-VPS somewhere else. Just to find out if the issue comes from hosting company. It costs to you few bucks and hour or two job.

Lots of memory is needed to precompile the javascript. Try adding swap. The overlay [image] Beda: only I just notice is that my VPS uses vfs instead of the suggested aufs or overlay. I think that test may be there for a reason. This could be your issue.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Try adding swap Why 5 GB RAM with vanilla Discourse would need more swap if smaller ones are totally happy what those automatically got?

Because it’s easier than doing what you really need to do. [image] Select a storage driver Learn how to select the proper storage driver for your container. Adding swap might help, but it’s not your biggest issue.

I assume I should have tried this before deploying the discourse container: How to change the Docker storage driver – Webdock Apparently it is possible to change the storage driver - contrary to what the host instructed me back when we deployed the container (which was to either edit the loader file or ignore the check) Duh, now it is too late I’d assume. Thanks anyway, if this is the cause of the issues, I guess it is user-wrongdoing. Mea culpa :slight_smile:

[image] Beda: , now it is too late I’d assume I wouldn’t think so. Also the two container setup has reduced down time since you csv rebuild the new web container while the old one continues to run.

How large is your site? I would add swap regardless to address the memory issue. A blank 1GB instance with 1GB swap performs fine for a small test community but as soon as it grows that won’t cut it. The swap absolutely makes a difference.

[image] Beda: I appreciate that, but rebuilding the app takes about 3 hours! And this is on a massive VPS. If rebuilding on a “massive” VPS, siting on a datacenter with a fat pipe to the internet takes 3 hours, and rebuilding my install over at https://discourse-on-a-pi.falco.dev that runs on a credit card sized board in my desk, connected to the internet via a standard home plan in a third world country takes only 14 minutes (+4 minutes when there is a new container image) there is something wrong in the product they are selling you…

Rebuild taking ~3hours

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 4, 2022, 10:10am 15

Because it’s easier than doing what you really need to do.

Adding swap might help, but it’s not your biggest issue.

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Rebuild taking ~3hours

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