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overcome limited RAM on VPS
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Turn on swap! That way more of your actual ram can be used by the application. Yes, it will probably be slow as crud but it should use more memory than it has. If swap is already on.... sorry
I forgot to mention, I had plenty of swap available, now I disabled swap to force zram usage. I still need to see what happens running with both, it's hard when each trial takes 12-24 hours to show its result.
Oh yikes yeah I would not be good at that pace 😅 I know you can rebuild the kernel with less features to reduce ram usage, but other than that I would be looking at what you're already doing.
Have you considered removing docker from the equation and running directly on the host os?
Running without docker is out of question, is a bundle of 6 docker containers. Deployment and management without it would be too complicated. Luckily somebody in another reply made me realize that the RAM eating container (cockroach DB) is far less essential than I thought and I can look for a replacement.
Awesome, lol also you may be able to make a new email and free vps just to run cockroach db