# Normal RAM Usage

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/normal-ram-usage/50630>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 25, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/normal-ram-usage/50630 "2016-09-25T17:13:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dustinmatlock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dustinmatlock/32/78358_2.png) [@dustinmatlock](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dustinmatlock)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/normal-ram-usage/50630/3 "2016-09-26T13:10:13Z")

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Hi Matt, I don’t know if you had a chance to read the rest of what I wrote, but I read somewhere Discourse only requires 1 GB of RAM. If that’s the case, it seems my installation is using more than expected. I don’t have any users yet. Before restarting the server, some of the swap memory was being used as well. Perhaps I didn’t know Discourse needed so much memory, and that was my question: are these normal results? Most of the allotted memory is being used. Thanks!

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