Failed to Bootstrap due to out of memory

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I’m trying to create a new Discourse, falling the steps here: How To Install Discourse via Docker on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

I get to the ./launcher bootstrap app part, and it goes off for about 45 minutes (even though the guide says it should only take 8 minutes), and it comes back with an error:

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I was originally trying this with the default setup on Digital Ocean of Ubuntu 16.041 x64, but then I noticed that the guide uses Ubuntu 14.04 x64. So I destroyed my droplet and started a new one, but I get the same exact behavior.

In both cases I’m choosing the 1 GB droplet option, which has worked for me in the past. I’ve checked and rechecked and triple-checked my app.yml file, and everything seems to be correct.

Has anybody else encountered this error? Has something changed since the publishing of the guide I’m following?

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When you use the command free -m

Do you have a swap ?

It seems that you don’t have enough memory and it kills the bootstrap

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I recommend using Discourse’s official Docker guide:

You won’t have any issues with the above guide.

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Ack, following the official Discourse setup guide did indeed work! Now I feel like a bit of an idiot, but maybe this’ll help somebody in the future who stumbles across the (faulty?) setup guide on Digital Ocean.

Thanks for the help!

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I agree it is confusing, looks like that article was written in 2014 however :wink: