# Discourse under heavy loads

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-under-heavy-loads/30444>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [25.Июнь.2015 06:48:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-under-heavy-loads/30444 "2015-06-25T06:48:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [25.Июнь.2015 18:15:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-under-heavy-loads/30444/2 "2015-06-25T18:15:50Z")

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> [@DrEmixam](#):
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> I don’t need assistance for server administration

> [@DrEmixam](#):
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> I don’t know what to expect.

Hmmm 😄

We’ve seen 2000 simultaneous users bring Discourse to it’s knees on a 4GB quad-core server. That was on Discourse 1.0 with Ruby 2.1 so things might have gotten a bit better in the meanwhile.

So you can do the math…

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