I’m trying to rebake 45k posts because I’ve changed the S3 CDN URL and it keeps running out of memory and killing it. I read this about setting up a swapfile… [image] Create a swapfile for your Linux server Self-Hosting bulb For servers with <= 4GB of RAM, ru…

Oddly enough I let the uncooked run again while I was writing all of that up. Left for a long lunch with some friends and came back to it being 100% done. I’m not sure if the swapfile finally started working or if it was just a low use coincidence of timing, but… [image] done, finally! Maybe if …

[image] DavidO: swapoff: Not superuser On ubuntu: Sudo -i On Debian Su -

Thanks. Not sure if I did it right or not. [image]

That doesn’t look right. Which instructions are you following? And why are you creating swap inside the container? Swap is meant to be created on the host not inside the container.

[image] itsbhanusharma: And why are you creating swap inside the container? Because I only marginally know what I’m doing. :wink: [image] itsbhanusharma: Swap is meant to be created on the host not inside the container. So that’s at the ubuntu: base level and not the ubuntu:/var/disco…

[image] DavidO: Any ideas on the rebake throttling? I have never seen rebake being throttled, it is asynchronous, it queues the jobs which are processed in the background.

OK, thank you. Mine finished the rebake for now, so I’ll consider myself lucky and stop messing with it. :smiley:

[image] DavidO: So that’s at the ubuntu: base level and not the ubuntu:/var/discourse level? Warning :warning: : don’t do things blindly on a production site, there is a strong chance of things going wrong without any real way to recover them. no, it’s not the ubuntu: level. Did you do a ./…

OK, thanks for the guidance. Our forum is just a group of friends and has good backups, so if I roast it for a week or so, we’ll just have to suffer through GroupMe. :wink:

[image] DavidO: mkswap error swapfile is mounted will not make swapspace This means that you already have a swapfile, it’s called /swapfile, and it’s in use. If you want to make it bigger, you can stop your container, then unmount it, and then use that dd command to make it bigger, and then …

Throttle rebake to keep from running out of memory?

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) January 7, 2026, 8:13pm 3

On ubuntu:

Sudo -i

On Debian

Su -

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