# Due to extreme load, this is temporarily being shown to everyone... when it's not really the case

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/due-to-extreme-load-this-is-temporarily-being-shown-to-everyone-when-its-not-really-the-case/268636
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [June 16, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/due-to-extreme-load-this-is-temporarily-being-shown-to-everyone-when-its-not-really-the-case/268636 "2023-06-16T14:39:03Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/due-to-extreme-load-this-is-temporarily-being-shown-to-everyone-when-its-not-really-the-case/268636/7 "2023-06-16T19:31:41Z")

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> [@Crius](#):
>
> this message started popping out nearly constantly since I last updated discourse a couple of days ago.  
> …  
> Can someone help me understand how this message get triggered

It [looks to me](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/4b9d50c98aedd4c30f86e10835d49122d37da2ec/config/discourse_defaults.conf#LL256C1-L262C1) like it’s triggered when requests are queued for too long - in other words, requests coming in faster than they are serviced. One might wonder why so many requests, or why such slow service. At the Discourse level, there are tunables which are already discussed in this thread and also, for example, in [Extreme load error](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-load-error/180311).

At the Linux level, I would check

```plaintext
uptime
free
vmstat 5 5
ps auxrc

```

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