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Any chance that, by limiting RAM usage, you forced your application to heavily swap, clogging the disk and making your machine slow?

I have run a public gateway on 2GB of RAM. Later 4GB because it was subject to very heavy abuse, but it was perfectly possible. Perhaps it is a matter of knowing how to configure things and how to not inflict self-pain with wrong settings.

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Yes, there is definitely a chance but it was wayyyy worse when I gave it more or unlimited ram. At least this way the machine was operational most of the time. I don't think it was swapping but since I think the limit I applied also affected the page cache it was likely reading it's data from disk a lot more often than it would of if it could own the whole page cache. But this is basically the same effect as swapping.

Maybe there is a Goldilocks value I could find, but I didn't really need IPFS running that much so I just removed it.

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