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rcarlson

Do you have to do anything special on Heroku to get this to work for smaller instances scaled out? We've run into memory issues with anything less than Performance M dynos (2.5 gb per instance). So right now we are running a single 2.5gb instance.

Our usage is also pretty light, maybe 20 concurrent users at a time (usually 2-3)

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Molly Struve (she/her)

YES!!! We cut our memory usage in half by switching to jemalloc. You can read about it on dev.to 👉 dev.to/devteam/how-we-decreased-ou...

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rcarlson

Thanks for sharing this, we will give it a try tonight. We are also using fastly, which is why I was shocked at the base memory requirements for the application.