# Low ram warning

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510 "2021-06-17T09:27:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jonas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonas](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Jonas)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/1 "2021-06-17T09:27:21Z")

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Using Rpi4B+ with 4gb RAM  
1gb SSD externally powered  
I finished downloading the Blockchain 30 hours ago.

I am getting Low Ram notification at the top of the UI.

I have no apps installed at the moment.

Any suggestions?

(I have updated to V0.3.12)

here are the relevant logs

## Memory usage

```
          total used free shared buff/cache available

```

Mem: 3.8G 1.2G 675M 2.0M 1.9G 2.6G  
Swap: 4.1G 191M 3.9G

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**Author:** ![Sequen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Sequen](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Sequen)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/2 "2021-06-23T18:22:53Z")

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Hi - same issue here - did you get this resolved?

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**Author:** ![Jonas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonas](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Jonas)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/3 "2021-06-25T20:54:33Z")

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after a few reboots it cleared … so strange  
(rebooted about 6-7 times over 3 days)

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**Author:** ![zcain79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3bc359/32.png) [@zcain79](https://community.umbrel.com/u/zcain79)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/4 "2021-07-23T12:59:05Z")

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I’m getting that message too about low RAM. Did this fix the issue, or is it still happening? Also, i’m trying to decide whether to just upgrade to an 8GB RAM RP and get it over with.

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**Author:** ![1GLENCo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/1glenco/32/432_2.png) [@1GLENCo](https://community.umbrel.com/u/1GLENCo)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/5 "2021-07-28T15:28:19Z")

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I saw that as well. I deleted a few unused apps and the message went away. I would have liked to keep LNbits, but wasn’t yet using it, so deleted it. Problem solved.

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**Author:** ![zcain79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3bc359/32.png) [@zcain79](https://community.umbrel.com/u/zcain79)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/low-ram-warning/1510/6 "2021-07-28T16:04:51Z")

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I saw one comment from someone else, saying they gave it about 12 hours, and restarted their node, and now the RAM usage is fine. Mine is too. Hovers around 50-60% most of the time, even with 2-3 apps running at once (I tried to max it out just to stress test it). I am however, upgrading to a RaspberryPi 4 8GB, just because. Bright side, I’ll have a spare Pi just in case anything happens. Or, I’ve also thought about setting up a secondary backup node.