# Sunstone consumes memory **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [June 13, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441 "2017-06-13T10:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![denis-ldv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denis-ldv](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/denis-ldv)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441/1 "2017-06-13T10:00:10Z")
Opennebula 5.2.1 VM with frontend has 2Gb total memory After each F5 (refresh) at Dashboard /usr/bin/ruby /usr/lib/one/sunstone/sunstone-server.rb consumes ~1% more memory up to \>50% (1Gb) Is it normal? ---
**Author:** ![DaD](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dad/32/8466_2.png) [@DaD](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/DaD)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441/2 "2017-06-13T13:15:49Z")
Denis Ldv [opennebula@discoursemail.com](mailto:opennebula@discoursemail.com) writes: > Opennebula 5.2.1 > > VM with frontend has 2Gb total memory > > After each F5 (refresh) at Dashboard > /usr/bin/ruby /usr/lib/one/sunstone/sunstone-server.rb > consumes ~1% more memory up to \>50% (1Gb) > > Is it normal? I remember asking this question on IRC, I finished by setting up Sunstone with Unicorn and each worker use several hundred MB of non-swapped memory: ``` USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND oneadmin 23701 0.0 0.2 69244 13636 ? Ssl juin12 0:02 unicorn master -I /usr/lib/one/sunstone -c /etc/one/sunstone-unicorn.rb /usr/lib/one/sunstone/config.ru oneadmin 23705 0.0 4.6 506412 282312 ? Sl juin12 0:34 \_ unicorn worker[0] -I /usr/lib/one/sunstone -c /etc/one/sunstone-unicorn.rb /usr/lib/one/sunstone/config.ru oneadmin 23708 0.0 3.8 454020 233244 ? Sl juin12 0:36 \_ unicorn worker[1] -I /usr/lib/one/sunstone -c /etc/one/sunstone-unicorn.rb /usr/lib/one/sunstone/config.ru oneadmin 23711 0.0 8.5 762124 520472 ? Sl juin12 0:46 \_ unicorn worker[2] -I /usr/lib/one/sunstone -c /etc/one/sunstone-unicorn.rb /usr/lib/one/sunstone/config.ru oneadmin 23714 0.0 4.4 498352 274080 ? Sl juin12 0:47 \_ unicorn worker[3] -I /usr/lib/one/sunstone -c /etc/one/sunstone-unicorn.rb /usr/lib/one/sunstone/config.ru ``` This can result with my frontend swapping :-/ As I setup a memcached I can quite easily restart the unicorn service without much trouble for my users since it’s quick and they are not disconnected. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![denis-ldv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denis-ldv](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/denis-ldv)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441/3 "2017-06-16T12:33:45Z")
Thank you for answer. I installed memcached and unicorn as you suggested. Plus [https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer](https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer) for automatic worker restart after memory limit reach. ---
**Author:** ![DaD](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dad/32/8466_2.png) [@DaD](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/DaD)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441/4 "2017-06-20T07:18:10Z")
Denis Ldv [opennebula@discoursemail.com](mailto:opennebula@discoursemail.com) writes: > Thank you for answer. > > I installed memcached and unicorn as you suggested. You are welcome. I said I should blog about the unicorn setup with systemd services & co. but I never take the time to do it :-/ > Plus [GitHub - kzk/unicorn-worker-killer: Automatically restart Unicorn workers based on 1) max number of requests and 2) max memory](https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer) for automatic > restart after memory limit reach. Thanks, I was not aware of this one. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![sulaweyo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/sulaweyo/32/4708_2.png) [@sulaweyo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sulaweyo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/sunstone-consumes-memory/4441/5 "2017-09-11T13:32:17Z")
I see this is a workaround but did anybody actually try to fix the memleak? I have that on sunstone and on econe as well and while i don’t have a problem restarting sunstone i have problems restarting econe as i have constant load on it. Had it on 5.2 and just added more memory but on 5.4 in ha this gets a bit excessive as i have 3 nodes where i have to increase memory.