Hello, I have Discourse installed on DigitalOcean. I see the minimum requirements are 1 GB of RAM, although it seems my server is using more than expected. Any thoughts, is this normal? Thanks! [image]

Yes, that’s normal. What you can do is tune down the unicorn workers number. In one instance I have: 280MB per unicorn worker 200MB sidekiq 180MB unicorn master I guess going from 4 workers to 2 can shave you some memory. PS: I’m assuming that you are running a ghost town, when you get…

What about that screenshot do you consider to be abnormal?

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 …

Check the existing topic below [image] Oddly high RAM usage with Discourse? Support Hi, I’m running a virtual private server with Discourse installed through Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Right now there’s no traffic (there’s probably two or three people on the site …

Thank you. Your response has been the most helpful. Any advice on getting it working on Linode – maybe even how to migrate the forum? Linode uses a different kernel, so it’s going to be a manual installation, and the kernel has to be switched as well. I can get double the memory with less storage on…

I have followed this guide soem months ago, and it worked fine: [image] Install Docker with AUFS on Linode Sysadmins The 30-minute Discourse installation guide assumes you’ll be using Digital Ocean and makes no mention of an important requirement for Docker: …

I saw that tutorial, but it’s hard for me to use something where the person who wrote it doesn’t understand what’s going on. Here’s another resource I might try. Thanks for the help! http://crunchify.com/how-to-setup-discourse-org-forum-on-linode-correct-way-tested-and-verified-steps/

In regards to the security issue, I think this article on Linode’s blog may have a few answers.

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) September 26, 2016, 2:43pm 4

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