# Discourse unavailable with high load average

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [9월 3, 2018, 7:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246 "2018-09-03T07:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnDoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@JohnDoux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnDoux)\
**Post date:** [9월 3, 2018, 9:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246/8 "2018-09-03T09:17:54Z")

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Thanks guys.

What I don’t understand is that I had 2GB RAM and it was working well, then suddenly I started to have a high load average. I already upgraded to 4GB RAM and I am still facing the same issue, how is it possible that Discourse suddenly needs so much more RAM?

I also changed my `app.yml` with `UNICORN_WORKERS: 3`, it was 8 before.

I am rebuilding the app now and I’ll check if there is any changes.

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