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Hello,

Many times, we see smaller sized droplets run out of memory due to the number of processes that are running. This can cause slow connections, services to crash and overall unpredictable behavior.

Potential solutions are:

  1. Upsize to a larger server. We recommend at least a 1GB droplet for any server utilizing a MySQL database.

  2. Enable swap (search for 'swap' in our articles https://digitalocean.com/community)

  3. Tuning: reduce the number of running programs, configure mysql or other programs to use less ram, etc)

You can check your current memory usage by running the following command however, please remember that certain applications may have already crashed in will not be included in the current totals:

free -m

Let us know if you need anything else!

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