# How to diagnose a slowdown?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 8, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-diagnose-a-slowdown/254504 "2023-02-08T20:13:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-diagnose-a-slowdown/254504/6 "2023-02-14T05:42:16Z")

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I’m sitting at 80% memory usage. Is this typical? The dip is because I stopped and restarted the app using the launcher.

droplet: `4 GB Memory / 2 AMD vCPUs / 80 GB Disk`

I spun up a new droplet and put in a backup of the forum (without images) and I get similar behaviour

htop output, sorted by mem:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/f/d/cfd1c522e093a084fc48206e05d3c4fcd13ca73b.jpeg)

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