# Files not uploading and Getting Errors
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 12, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168 "2015-02-12T18:14:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mohammad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168/1 "2015-02-12T18:14:44Z")
I am not able to upload images and I am getting this popup error everytime I try to upload an image:
> Sorry, there was an error uploading that file. Please try again.
I checked the File settings and the max upload limit of an image is 3072 KB. I even changed it to 7000KB but no use. I am not able to upload an image of size 30KB? One of the problem I observed is that I am able to uplaod short width images with width \< 400px but not for wider images. Don’t know what is wrong at [http://ask.mybloggertricks.com](http://ask.mybloggertricks.com)
I did delete browser image cache but no use. Would really appreciate a help here
**UPDATE:** The problem was due to a recent version of discourse that caused some bugs due to memory leak as [discussed here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-2-beta-users-please-upgrade-to-beta-8-immediately-due-to-critical-memory-leak/25186) which thanks to @sam is all setup now!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168/2 "2015-02-12T18:25:57Z")
Are there any related erros in `/logs`?
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### Author:  [@Mohammad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168/3 "2015-02-12T19:01:28Z")
@zogstrip This is what see in errro log
```
Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
16 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
16 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
9 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
9 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
8 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
8 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
7 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
7 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
6 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
6 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
5 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
5 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
5 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
5 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert public/uploads/letter_avatars/2/T/115_171_32/240.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 20x20^ -extent 20x20 -interpolate bicubic -un
5 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
4 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
4 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
4 mins ago
!
Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
4 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/39/85758821f49d44cb.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 25x25^ -extent 25x25 -interpolat
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
3 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
2 mins ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
2 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/39/85758821f49d44cb.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 25x25^ -extent 25x25 -interpolat
2 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert public/uploads/letter_avatars/2/T/115_171_32/240.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 32x32^ -extent 32x32 -interpolate bicubic -un
2 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert public/uploads/letter_avatars/2/T/115_171_32/240.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 20x20^ -extent 20x20 -interpolate bicubic -un
2 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/39/85758821f49d44cb.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 32x32^ -extent 32x32 -interpolat
2 mins ago
!!
Errno::ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory - convert /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/39/85758821f49d44cb.png[0] -background transparent -gravity center -thumbnail 45x45^ -extent 45x45 -interpolat
2 mins ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
a min ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
a min ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
a min ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
a min ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -Pk /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default | awk 'NR==2 {print $4 * 1024;}'
a min ago
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Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
secs ago
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Job exception: Wrapped Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - df -P /var/www/discourse/public/uploads | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
secs ago
```
Dashboards shows the following upload stats:
uploads 1000 KB (21 GB free)
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168/4 "2015-02-12T20:26:39Z")
Disk space isn’t the issue, your server has run out of RAM. Discourse has (had?) a bit of a memory leak; update and restart Discourse and this error should go away – unless something else running on your server is hogging all your RAM. 😉
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/files-not-uploading-and-getting-errors/25168/5 "2015-02-12T22:57:35Z")