# Forcefully install Discourse on 256 or 512 RAM machine

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [9월 26, 2016, 4:56오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677 "2016-09-26T16:56:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [9월 27, 2016, 8:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/9 "2016-09-27T20:12:47Z")

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> [@seanmavley](#):
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> But as it stands now, Discourse won’t let me even install by default, strictly saying I must have not less than 1 Gig RAM.

Indeed. `discourse-setup` is designed to work for **most** people, and especially, people who do not know about system administration. If it allowed people to install on a 512GB machine then people would complain that it was too slow or they were out of memory.

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