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 right now for bet…

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 Self-Hosting The 30-minute Discourse installation guide assumes you’ll be using Digital Ocean and makes no mention of an important requirement for Docker: If you u…

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! [image] How to Setup Discourse.org Forum on Linode correct way - Tested and Verified... On ask.crunchify.c…

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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