# 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:** ![Maltazard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maltazard/32/300126_2.png) [@Maltazard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maltazard)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607/6 "2023-03-30T06:32:54Z")

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In my case, it is an Amazon EC2 server.  
Here’s the result of `free -m --si`

```plaintext
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 986 594 75 14 317 209
Swap: 4294 811 3483

```

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