Is it the same process to update Discourse via the browser, or via Terminal using the ./launcher rebuild app? If so, any advantages of one over the other, other than being able to update plugins individually? I’m no expert in this, so I’m sorry if I’m saying something that doesn’t make sense. I’m…

This should help with future rebuilds: [image] High rebuild memory requirements: April 2025 edition Self-hosting We just landed this commit which should hopefully improve the situation. Please let us know how you get on! (it’ll hit tests-passed in the next ~30…

[image] merefield: You can find resources on here to configure a “we’re offline, come back later screen” I saw that a few days ago, but it was indeed very complex for me. I just posted the errors I’m seeing when trying to update now. It crashed again. It’s on my previous reply.

So after it crashed , I clicked the button to restart updating and it’s stuck on this again, which is what happened last night: [image] Here’s what I noticed, but don’t know if it’s a coincidence: when it gets stuck on that state where nothing happens, I click Reset Update. Try to restart, nothing…

I’m confused now… it crashed again, but when I refreshed the browser it said that Discourse was at the newest version… When I went to the main updates page where the plugins are, it indeed showed Discourse as being updated :thinking:

[image] alltiagocom: Command was killed with SIGKILL Try creating a swap: [image] Create a swapfile for your Linux server Self-Hosting bulb For servers with <= 4GB of RAM, running ./discourse-setup will prompt for and automatically create a 2GB swapfile.…

[image] Canapin: Try creating a swap I’ve seen this word before, but I have no idea what it is and what it is for. Thank you for sharing that link. I will definitely do that and if I encounter any issue, I will share it. When I go to DigitalOcean, I see this for my droplet: [image] So I “…

Then ./discourse-setup should have created a swap automatically. I’m not well versed in the arcanes of system administration so I’ll let others tell more about this. That said, even with more than the requirements, users have come across this issue, so there’s something fishy. As for the update fr…

[image] Canapin: Then ./discourse-setup should have created a swap automatically Is there a way, via Terminal, to see if there is one already? (Maybe this answers my question? I’m not well versed in the arcanes of system administration) [image] Canapin: even with more than the requiremen…

Sorry, I meant from the interface, I’ve corrected my post. :slight_smile:

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) March 25, 2025, 9:16am 12

If it’s less than 2GB, I would recommended creating a swapfile. Mine is 1GB so I definitely needed one.

From my understanding, swap basically takes some storage and converts it to use as more memory.

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