# WARNING: Discourse requires 1GB RAM

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607 "2020-04-20T12:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![vove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@vove](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vove)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607/1 "2020-04-20T12:40:52Z")

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Hi all!

I’ve been trying to install Discourse, but without success so far.

I have a VPS with 1 GB ram and a 2gb swap file. Whenever I run ./discourse-setup I get the following error. (I’ve done a few clean installs on this VPS and also tried with 5b and 10gb swap files)

[https://i.imgur.com/kn7ZsMw.png](https://i.imgur.com/kn7ZsMw.png)

As you can see in the screenshots there’s enough space free in the swap file.

I’ve searched the forums but all I get is either “the setup should make ask to make a swap file itself” or “you can make a swap file and then run the installation again”

I hope anyone has a solution.

Thanks in advance.

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