# Extreme memory usage due to bad mail credentials

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [11 ביוני,‏ 2019,‏ 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080 "2019-06-11T21:46:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [11 ביוני,‏ 2019,‏ 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080/3 "2019-06-11T21:52:18Z")

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Do you have a lot of jobs in your sidekiq queues? Did this happen suddenly?

You could consider solving it the hard way by clearing everything in redis. You will lose all pending jobs in sidekiq though. Start up `redis-cli` and then enter the command `flushdb`. After that, restart Discourse.

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