I recently updated to Ubuntu 20.04 on a 1GB droplet running Ghost. Now, whenever I run ghost update or similar, I get a memory error:
You are recommended to have at least 150 MB of memory available for smooth operation. It looks like you have ~45.265625 MB available.
The memory available varies between 30 MB and almost 150 MB, but it always throws this error.
As suggested in the Ghost forum, I ran free -h (which repeated the warning, and then ghost restart (which did not).
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Adding a 2GB swap file with a swappiness of 10 solved my memory errors. More info here.
However, is this a bad practice? How will it affect my server usage?
Hey there! Old post but thought I’d post to help others :)
I had this issue too running the most basic droplet type. I followed this Digital Ocean guide to add a “swap file” on my instance. This basically allocates some SSD space to use as “pretend memory”, and then I was able to upgrade ghost as normal.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-20-04
Alternatively you could simply resize your droplet to one with more RAM/memory.
Hope that helps someone!
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