# How much of a performance booster is 2GB vs 1GB RAM? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [2017年二月26日 23:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-of-a-performance-booster-is-2gb-vs-1gb-ram/58000 "2017-02-26T23:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Post date:** [2017年三月3日 11:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-of-a-performance-booster-is-2gb-vs-1gb-ram/58000/7 "2017-03-03T11:36:12Z")
This question has unintentionally resurfaced in another topic and, after some more testing, the answer there is pretty clear: for running Wordpress and Discourse on the same server, 1GB is not enough: > [@Is 1GB RAM enough for both WordPress and Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-1gb-ram-enough-for-both-wordpress-and-discourse/58141): > > I noticed a couple of warnings when rebuilding my container: WARNING: The TCP backlog setting of 511 cannot be enforced because /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn is set to the lower value of 128. WARNING overcommit\_memory is set to 0! Background save may fail under low memory condition. To fix this issue add ‘vm.overcommit\_memory = 1’ to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the command sysctl vm.overcommit\_memory=1’ for this to take effect WARNING you have Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support en… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-of-a-performance-booster-is-2gb-vs-1gb-ram/58000)._