# A look at memory on a 1GB DO Droplet

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**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-look-at-memory-on-a-1gb-do-droplet/265572 "2023-05-19T16:44:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-look-at-memory-on-a-1gb-do-droplet/265572/1 "2023-05-19T16:44:53Z")

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I just moved from a 2GB to a 1GB machine for my forum. It’s less than a year old, lightly used with 170 members.

In Digital Ocean I see:

 ![Screen Shot 2023-05-19 at 9.46.38 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/f/5/bf527f8a5dc2b1e16a42630022946e59cad2f475.png)

I’m quite certain, on my 2GB machine, memory utilization was in the 80% range.

Here’s some commands.

`htop`

 ![Screen Shot 2023-05-19 at 10.38.37 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/b/e/cbedd05808ad4cd6b1d4e706f089c77b64fa9a22.png)

`free -h`

 ![Screen Shot 2023-05-19 at 10.39.03 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/2/8/d28496209f7f5482061c75e40cbe8510ecb756a7.png)

Upon system login

 ![Screen Shot 2023-05-19 at 10.37.55 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/3/c/33c5fbcf707ae652cbfb2740cfd2e960e710af01.png)

I’m not familiar with how swap works, but by looking at the system information upon login, it appears my memory usage is far lower than what Digital Ocean shows. Is this because of the usage of swap? I’m trying to gauge how this 1GB instance will hold up with my current and future users.

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