# 25GB of "cannot allocate memory" logs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/25gb-of-cannot-allocate-memory-logs/33533>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/25gb-of-cannot-allocate-memory-logs/33533 "2015-09-21T18:24:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaelgiesler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaelgiesler/32/46374_2.png) [@michaelgiesler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaelgiesler)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/25gb-of-cannot-allocate-memory-logs/33533/4 "2015-09-22T05:43:48Z")

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Thanks for your replies.

```
root@www:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/rails# free -h
              total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 994M 929M 64M 7.7M 4.6M 36M
-/+ buffers/cache: 888M 105M
Swap: 255M 191M 64M

```

I do not have any plugins installed. It’s still the very default Discourse from your installation guide. The only thing that I can mention is that I at first tried the 512MB server from DigitalOcean and increased to 1GB when installation failed and then started once more.

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