# Help! Discourse workers dying on our community site

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-discourse-workers-dying-on-our-community-site/70518>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [2017 年9 月 21 日 15:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-discourse-workers-dying-on-our-community-site/70518 "2017-09-21T15:04:44Z")\
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作者： ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
发布日期： [2017 年9 月 26 日 18:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-discourse-workers-dying-on-our-community-site/70518/8 "2017-09-26T18:16:29Z")

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The system wasn’t exhibiting the signs that @sam described.

`du postgres_data` shows 9GB, so maybe the database is just too big? But it was working fine on a 4GB droplet before this problem started.

Load average is staying below 2.

Maybe it’s bad luck and that server at Digital Ocean is broken in some way.

@digitaldan, you might file a ticket with them and see if they know anything like the SSD is failing or something. Or some other user on that machine is breaking it.

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