Memory availability error on upgrade

[markstos]

There are some tips here on tuning MySQL to reduce the memory use. I have not tried them myself.

Running Ghost on 1GB RAM - mySQL fix

The memory requirement is 2GB RAM for self-hosted Ghost which is very reasonable. I have a personal blog not expecting much traffic, so I run it on a 1GB droplet on DigitalOcean. It uses 80-90% RAM after installation as expected, but Ghost can not be updated which is frustrating. By tweaking the mySQL config I reduced he memory consumption down to 70% which is fine for now with very few visitors. I’ll upgrade the VPS and remove the tweaks when/if I see more traffic. Checking mySQL use with …