I don’t want a swap. I will risk OOM. Are there command line switches implied here to constrain RAM under 2gigs? [תמונה] Have Discourse's requirements changed recently? Self-hosting This seems to need to be increased. As @Canapin pointed out with my topic having 4g of ram was not sufficient. And as I mentioned in my topic the instructions for adding a swap file should be added to git hub install instructions even if just an option if 4g of ram or less. This instance will have at most 10 users. That’s right. TEN. Likely a frequent THREE users. The default of 1 GB RAM works fine for small Discourse communities. We recommend 2 GB RAM for larger communities. docs/INSTALL-cloud.md main # Install Discourse on a Cloud Server > To install and self-host Discourse, follow the steps below. But if you'd rather skip the setup, maintenance, and server management, our official Discourse hosting plans (Free, Pro, Business or Enterprise) take care of everything for you. > > [Learn more about Discourse hosting](https://discourse.org/pricing) > If you prefer to self-host but need help setting it up we have partners who can help. > [Click here to explore self-hosting set-up options](https://discourse.org/partners). **Set up Discourse in about 10 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. Works on any Docker-compatible cloud provider or local server. ## Contents - [Quick Start](#quick-start) - [Requirements](#requirements) - [Installation](#installation) - [The Setup Wizard](#the-setup-wizard) - [After Installation](#after-installation) - [Advanced Configuration](#advanced-configuration) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) This file has been truncated. show original So I provisioned a non-refundable 1c2r. That’s it. No upgrades. Swap takes too much space. So pass. frustrated

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.

[תמונה] 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 provisioned VPS. On my next spare I will try it. I have an instance now running on 4c12r [תמונה] itsbhanusharma: You should contact your cloud provider to provision a larger disk for you. Given: cannot increase resources Suggestion: increase resources

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 data each time to a fresh up to date installation But I’ve done my own struggling with a minimal sized instance, using my many decades of sysadmin experience. Eventually, it was preferable to use a bigger machine. In fact, very preferable, because the bigger machine was cheaper. This is because different providers charge different amounts - I moved from Digital Ocean to Hetzner.

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.

[תמונה] nineb: Given: cannot increase resources Suggestion: increase resources I guess the key takeaway was [תמונה] itsbhanusharma: You’re really on your own with this. I would advise highly against trying to circumvent the SWAP requirement. and not [תמונה] itsbhanusharma: You should contact your cloud provider to provision a larger disk for you. which was merely a suggestion to a path forward.

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I guess the key takeaway was

and not

which was merely a suggestion to a path forward.

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