Since updating to latest yesterday I’ve been seeing this error in the logs constantly. My server has 8gb of ram and only 60% used. I tried running discourse-setup to reset my settings, which gave me this: setting db_shared_buffers = 2048MB setting UNICORN_WORKERS = 4 Logs: Message (781 copies rep…

Increase the Sidekiq memory fixed it for me. [afbeelding] Sidekiq is consuming too much memory, restarting Self-hosting Also, if your server has enough total RAM, you can increase the memory allocation for Sidekiq. Place this in the env: section of app.yml: …

If it’s any consolation I get this too, fairly regularly. I’ll investigate @Don ’s suggestion. I did wonder! Now I know!

That seems to have done the trick, thank you Don!

Is this a case of “not enough headroom” or do we think this is a memory leak of some kind? If the latter then surely this error will pop up anyway and increasing the memory allocated will just reduce the error frequency …

FWIW I still haven’t seen the error and my memory usage went up about 400 MB after changing this setting.

I’m a wondering this: [afbeelding] Sidekiq is consuming too much memory, restarting on mega busy multisites you need to adjust UNICORN_SIDEKIQ_MAX_RSS I get same error ( or should it count more as informative?) and mine is not multisite nor busy. Is achitecture changed over the times and we …

This warning appeared in my /logs after I actived YJIT but there is a note it is increase memory usage. However I think it can also happen busy sites with lots of activity or busy shared servers with shared memory etc… [afbeelding] Running Ruby 3.2's YJIT in Production at Discourse Please note t…

the Sidekiq dashboard appears to show memory use for Redis, shame it doesn’t do the same for Sidekiq itself?: [image]

Just a little update here, since making the change my memory usage jumped from around 60% to 80% (8 GB) and holding steady. I haven’t seen another error in the logs and some other issues have cleared up as well. [image]

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Don 3 oktober 2023 om 19:54 2

Increase the Sidekiq memory fixed it for me.

Error in composer: You are not permitted to view the requested resource

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Sidekiq is consuming too much memory even with UNICORN_SIDEKIQ_MAX_RSS adjusted Self-hosting server-resources	6	765	9 oktober 2025
Sidekiq is consuming too much memory (using: 522.12M)..., restarting Support sidekiq	3	191	15 oktober 2025
Sidekiq warnings Support sidekiq	6	214	17 juli 2025
Sidekiq is consuming too much memory, restarting Self-hosting	38	9076	13 oktober 2020
Redis used_memory limited to 1024mb? Support	2	191	16 februari 2026

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