# Out of memory on rebuild with 4GB swap?

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**Created:** [January 6, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/out-of-memory-on-rebuild-with-4gb-swap/392831 "2026-01-06T23:41:29Z")
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I’ve had several two-container bootstraps fail today with errors like

```
 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build -prod"]

```

I think once I added swap and had it work the next time. But this has 4GB swap:

```plaintext
# free -h
               total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1.9Gi 1.1Gi 391Mi 45Mi 661Mi 830Mi
Swap: 4.0Gi 3.1Gi 911Mi

```

and it’s still failing. And if I stop the container before the bootstrap, it does succeed.

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