I don’t want a swap. I will risk OOM. Are there command line switches implied here to constrain RAM under 2gigs? [image] Have Discourse's requirements changed recently? Self-hosting This seems to need to be increased. As @Canapin pointed out with my topic h…

You probably can’t build a container without swap. You could try creating the swap, building the container, shutting down the container, and removing the swap. Swap had been a requirement for almost ten years.

You’re really on your own with this. I would advise highly against trying to circumvent the SWAP requirement. You should contact your cloud provider to provision a larger disk for you.

[image] pfaffman: You could try creating the swap, building the container, shutting down the container, and removing the swap. I tried the next best thing with two SSH windows. create swap, run launcher, other ssh window delete swap, launcher continued. And this might work on a better provi…

Typically you need more memory (RAM+swap) for an update than you do for normal service. If you have no space for swap, it’s because your forum data (database+uploads) is using the space you need. It’s just possible that you could follow the strategy never update or the strategy migrate your d…

The other possibility, which would require a bunch of work, would be to build the new image on another machine, put it to some repo, and then launch it on the low-resource machine. But that’s beyond the kind of help it’s feasible to provide on a forum.

[image] nineb: Given: cannot increase resources Suggestion: increase resources I guess the key takeaway was [image] itsbhanusharma: You’re really on your own with this. I would advise highly against trying to circumvent the SWAP requirement. and not [image] itsbhanusharma: You s…

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) September 30, 2025, 5:27am 7

I guess the key takeaway was

and not

which was merely a suggestion to a path forward.

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