Throttle rebake to keep from running out of memory?

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@DavidO

Maybe if someone has an answer, it can help someone else or me on the next go round.

I don’t know about you, but I was repeatedly going out of memory during a long rebake process. Creating a 2 GB swap improved (more posts got rebaked), but still OOM after a while. Increased swap to 4 GB, and was able to rebake all my posts.

Rebake failing: how to diagnose and fix?

I increased the swap size from 2 to 4 GB, and the rebake worked. So, I guess it was about memory, though I am a bit surprised by how much it asks (8 GB RAM + 4 GB swap), especially since older rebakes didn’t have any issues with no swap and the same amount of RAM. What should I do if I want to monitor RAM usage and check for any issues? What metric should matter to estimate the memory requirements? Page views per day (5000-8000 + bot spikes once or twice a month)? Database size (23 GB)? …

I didn’t know anything about swap files besides this guide Create a swapfile for your Linux server, but chatGPT was knowledgeable enough to help me increase my swap without issues.