Hi, We get this message in the logs about twice a day since the update to Discourse 1.6.0: Sidekiq is consuming too much memory (using: 532.09M) for forum.detendusdupad.com, restarting Is it a normal behaviour, a misconfiguration or is Sidekiq actually leaking? The UNICORN_WORKERS value is set…

Fortunately, after increasing to 8GB, the problem has not recurred.

Thanks! I’ll try that approach then.

It suddenly started appearing to me a couple of days ago. Before I never saw Sidekiq is using too much memory errors in the logs. Now I see them a few times a day. And today it happened exactly as @pelcami has mentioned: the VM just plainly became unresponsive. SSH didn’t work. No access on HTT…

You can follow up with @tgxworld who is working the issue.

Be sure to do a full rebuild we recently bumped ruby version in image

ok. I’ll rebuild and observe.

Just as a reminder to people: If you get a “Docker version too low” error during rebuild, read the following: [image] End of Life for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and Discourse 1.9.0.beta10? Self-hosting Ok, all good. Here’s what I did incase it helps others who had an…

I’ve started seeing this after an update a few days ago @sam after the Amazon lifecycle patch I did a complete rebuild and now I’m seeing this everyday. Never happened before that. I’m on v1.9.0.beta14 +200

When is the last time you did a git pull ./launcher rebuild app You could be on an older version of Ruby.

[image] sam: ./launcher rebuild app I did this for the build above beta14+200 I didn’t do a git pull, thought that rebuild does that. EDIT: Okay I’m it again now, lets see how it goes.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 24, 2018, 12:19am 37

Almost certainly a scheduled daily task cc @sam

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