Hi,
I attempted to install Discourse on a digital ocean droplet with 1gb of RAM, the installer stated I should ideally be using 2gb of RAM, it mentionned swap files and that I could potentially run into problems with future upgrades.
Therefore is it safe to start with 1GB and if required upgrade the RAM later - would Discourse automatically use the additional RAM or would one need to amend the configuration in some way to allow for more RAM in future - and if so how?
You can run on the 1GB of ram to start with however I believe you would need a 2GB swap file to go with it in order to allow it to peak when doing resource intensive stuff such as upgrades etc.
If you have the 1GB Ram + 2GB Swap it should keep you going for a while thats for sure.
There are many posts on the forum about it so worth having a search through
If you let it, ./discourse-setup will create the swap file for you and configure the OS to try very hard never to use it.
Perhaps I should add the bolded words the message below?
In 2017, The install used to create a Swap automatically when you didn’t have enough RAM.
It seems even if you add the swap manually, the install wouldn’t proceed.
I just tested an install on a new 1GB Digital Ocean droplet using our default cloud install instructions, and it worked fine:
root@delete-me-install-test:~# sudo -s
root@delete-me-install-test:~# git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
Cloning into '/var/discourse'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 41, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (41/41), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28/28), done.
remote: Total 4455 (delta 15), reused 23 (delta 12), pack-reused 4414
Receiving objects: 100% (4455/4455), 968.00 KiB | 10.75 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2833/2833), done.
root@delete-me-install-test:~# cd /var/discourse
root@delete-me-install-test:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup
WARNING: Discourse requires at least 2GB of swap when running with 2GB of RAM
or less. This system does not appear to have sufficient swap space.
Without sufficient swap space, your site may not work properly, and future
upgrades of Discourse may not complete successfully.
Ctrl+C to exit or wait 5 seconds to have a 2GB swapfile created.
2097152+0 records in
2097152+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 6.28174 s, 342 MB/s
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2 GiB (2147479552 bytes)
no label, UUID=2233bd64-65cf-4468-9548-ab7897657855
/swapfile swap swap auto 0 0
vm.swappiness = 10
Ports 80 and 443 are free for use
'samples/standalone.yml' -> 'containers/app.yml'
Found 1GB of memory and 1 physical CPU cores
setting db_shared_buffers = 128MB
setting UNICORN_WORKERS = 2
containers/app.yml memory parameters updated.
Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]:
screenshot of it up and running at the IP address:
So, I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Yes very strange I retried and it worked as you have shown.
I’m using Amazon AWS on Ubuntu 18.04. Because of the bug I had, i had to upgrade my instance to get 2Go to be able to proceed with the setup.
저도 비슷한 상황입니다. DigitalOcean에서 2GB 드롭릿을 만들어 Discourse를 설치했습니다. 드롭릿을 시작하면 다음과 같은 경고가 표시됩니다:
WARNING: Discourse requires at least 2GB of swap when running with 2GB of RAM
or less. This system does not appear to have sufficient swap space.
하지만 DigitalOcean 문서에서는 SSD를 사용하는 드롭릿의 경우 SWAP 공간을 생성하지 않는 것을 권장하고 있습니다. 제 드롭릿도 SSD를 사용 중입니다(아마 모든 드롭릿이 그럴 겁니다).
그래서 어떻게 해야 할지 혼란스럽습니다. 어떤 조치를 권장하시나요?
Discourse 공식 표준 설치 절차에 따라 설치하시면 스왑이 자동으로 설정되므로, 수동으로 처리할 필요가 없습니다.