Google Cloud g1-small instance possible?

jayj 2019-08-10 17:26:07 UTC #1

Keywords: Discourse - Google Cloud Platform - Technical issue - Other
Description:
The minimum memory requirement by Discourse is supposed to be 1GB of RAM and Google's g1-small has 1.7 GB of RAM -- should Bitnami's Discourse setup work in a reasonable manner on this instance type?

pnytofficial 2019-08-11 01:10:02 UTC #2

Yes it will it might work a little better as it has more processing power

michiel 2019-08-12 09:01:58 UTC #3

Hi @pnytofficial,

For Discourse your need a minimum of 3GB of RAM for it to work properly.

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jayj 2019-08-12 16:50:26 UTC #4

@michiel yeah, my experience was that g1-small wasn't cutting it. However, the discord docs say that 1GB is their minimum requirement. Is there a disconnect there?

pnytofficial 2019-08-12 17:08:55 UTC #5

I mean it worked with digital ocean when I used it but when I moved to AWS 1gb didn't cut

jayj 2019-08-12 17:42:29 UTC #6

Yep so it definitely seems like either the memory or the 0.5 vcpu are a bottleneck -- g1-small isn't listed on the google cloud marketplace set up (and for this reason), but I thought I'd try and cut some costs and manually change to g1-small.

I'll stick with the n1-standard 3.75 machine type.

Still curious about why there is a 3x difference in discourse vs actual memory requirement, but not a big deal

michiel 2019-08-13 08:53:46 UTC #7

Hi @jayj,

I don't know why the discourse docs mention 1GB but I've created a task to change our documentation regarding Discourse requirements.

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