# 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:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607/3 "2020-04-20T12:47:10Z")

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You have less than 1000mb of ram. The message is correct. You can either get more ram, edit discourse-setup to skip the test, or create a yml file by hand.

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