# I Have an Issue With Swap File (2GB) During Installation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028 "2017-02-07T02:23:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/1 "2017-02-07T02:23:26Z")
Hello,
I am currently having issues with the last step of discourse installation. I got this reply from my from ssh client while trying to enter " ./discourse-setup"
Please what should I do?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/2 "2017-02-07T02:46:39Z")
From the output you provided it would appear that you have a 1 GB swap file, not a 2 GB one as required by Discourse. I’d suggest disabling the existing swap file by running
```plaintext
swapoff /swapfile
```
then running
```plaintext
./discourse-setup
```
again so it can create the 2 GB file. Did you previously set up a 1 GB swap file?
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### Author:  [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/3 "2017-02-07T02:50:02Z")
Yes I did set up a 1GB swap file because it was part of the instructions in vultr instruction documentation
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/4 "2017-02-07T02:52:47Z")
This? [https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-discourse-on-ubuntu-14-04](https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-discourse-on-ubuntu-14-04) Those docs are pretty outdated: `Modified on: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:32 pm EST`
The up-to-date instructions are here:
[discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
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### Author:  [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/5 "2017-02-07T02:56:04Z")
I have turned off swap file but am still getting an “insufficient swap space” message.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/6 "2017-02-07T02:57:07Z")
I suggest resetting your VPS with a clean Ubuntu Server 16.04 install and starting over from scratch.
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### Author:  [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/7 "2017-02-07T02:57:59Z")
Ok I will try that now. Thanks
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### Author:  [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/8 "2017-02-07T03:12:44Z")
[quote=“codinghorror, post:6, topic:57028, full:true”]
I suggest resetting your VPS with a clean Ubuntu Server 16.04 install and starting over from scratch.
[/quote]I have done what you said but am still having problem with the swap space stuff. Please what do I do?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [7 בפברואר, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-have-an-issue-with-swap-file-2gb-during-installation/57028/9 "2017-02-07T03:28:35Z")
The easiest thing would be to use digital ocean.
You could try to create a 2gb swap file yourself. If you do that and are still having trouble, include the output from
```
free -h
```