I’m following the official install guide, and when I run this command. ./discourse-setup I’m getting this error message. root@server:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup WARNING: Discourse requires at least 2GB of swap when running with 2GB of RAM or less. This system does not appear to have suffici…

Well, if I had to guess I would bet on it not being KVM as it’s simply more expensive. But I guess it doesn’t hurt asking their team, as their FAQs don’t mention the virtualization technology at all.

[immagine] abdurrehman: install: cannot remove '/swapfile': Operation not permitted This usually means you are not on a “real” VPS, as in it’s not a KVM one. What is your VPS provider and product / plan?

Oh, didn’t know that and it’s atlantic.net . Is there a fix for this though?

This is their free VPS offering? Contact support and ask if this product is KVM or OpenVZ.

Okay, so on free on it couldn’t be, right?

I’ll and going to them. Thanks! :slight_smile:

If it is a true KVM VPS, then you will need this article

There is no need to follow that as the current version of discourse-setup script takes care of that automatically.

It has failed for me on a couple of instances of Ubuntu (different providers) - Ramnode being one.

Yes, I worked that out by creating the swapfile.

I have one question though after installation, do I need to keep that file or can remove that anyway?

Impossibile creare swap durante l'installazione

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Timelord 10 Febbraio 2021, 6:13pm 8

Se si tratta di un vero VPS KVM, allora avrete bisogno di questo articolo

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