When updating using the UI updater in the admin section - It always fails. It has failed since I installed Discourse over a year ago. I can easily SSH into my server and update manually, but it is frustrating to have a feature that is not behaving correctly. Since Discourse is ran with Docker, and …

Resource requirements are now significantly lower, thanks to Introducing pre-compiled JS assets for self-hosters So hopefully these kind of Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build errors should be a thing of the past :crossed_fingers:

If you connect to your server by SSH, what deos free -h return?

I realize after doing some digging it could be that I am using the bare bones amount of RAM recommended but, this is for a private install with less than 50 users, so I really do not need to go above the minimum for my use case. [image]

i have no more than 3 simultaneous users and need more than that. I think you need to upgrade your VPS where are the majority of your users located?

I used to be able to do an update with 2G RAM + 2G swap but that was, I think, before ember, which is very demanding. If you have the disk space to goup to 4G swap, that might do it. Or, temporarily and carefully migrate to an instance with more RAM, do the update, and migrate back. Whatever you …

I will take a look at the swap option, and see if that helps. I have 2GB RAM, and 80GB disk. Unfortunately, my provider does not support automatic changes to system resources, but I also don’t want to pay more than $5. Thanks for the help.

[image] jdc20181: I have 2GB RAM, and 80GB disk i used to have 2GB RAM and 40GB disk, relying on .\discourse-setup to configure swap, web UI updates were slow

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Yeah, I’m on the tier below, after a year it’s $8 a month. Sadly.

I know Contabo provides VPSs for good prices. [Screenshot_20250729_064027_Chrome] You did say under 5…

Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what

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patrickemin (Patrick EMIN) July 28, 2025, 7:17pm 2

Hi, same thing, this has been the case for months.

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Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what

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