# Bisq is using 6.2 GB of RAM on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 31, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169 "2019-07-31T14:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/1 "2019-07-31T14:51:46Z")
Bisq is using 6.2 GB of RAM on my computer. I noticed this since day one back in March, but didn’t give it too much thought until now. Does anyone experience something similar? Is this normal at all? ---
**Author:** ![huey](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/huey/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@huey](https://bisq.community/u/huey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/2 "2019-07-31T15:19:12Z")
Running a fresh instance uses 2.5 GB on my side. But [other’s report similar experiences](https://www.reddit.com/r/bisq/comments/cjwpw4/bisq_uses_a_lot_of_cpu_cycles_and_ram_at_startup/). Are you using the latest version 1.1.4? Was it this heavy before? ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/3 "2019-07-31T16:20:37Z")
Yes. It happened since back when I started in March. Yes, I’m using 1.1.4. It was always heavy. Should I do backup and reinstall? ---
**Author:** ![huey](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/huey/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@huey](https://bisq.community/u/huey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/4 "2019-07-31T16:28:06Z")
I’m not sure that would solve whatever is causing the problem, but it’s worth a try. Do a backup to somewhere safe and erase everything Bisq related from its [directory](https://docs.bisq.network/backup-recovery.html#back-up) before reinstalling. ---
**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/5 "2019-07-31T16:44:17Z")
> [@goraelec](#): > > Bisq is using 6.2 GB of RAM on my computer. I noticed this since day one back in March, but didn’t give it too much thought until now. Does anyone experience something similar? Is this normal at all? On my Debian computer Bisq uses 1.1GB. 6.5GB seems quite a lot. Maybe this could be related to using an old and/or big wallet ? many open offers or trades ? Just guessing. Please take care to not reveal confidential infos about your Bisq use. ---
**Author:** ![tieck](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/tieck/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@tieck](https://bisq.community/u/tieck)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/6 "2019-07-31T18:08:10Z")
I also encounter the fact that Bisq is using up to 6 GB of RAM running under Ubuntu 18.04. However it is not really reproducible. After a restart it will usually go away… I think there are also some GitHub Issues concerning memory consumption. ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/7 "2019-08-01T08:19:36Z")
There are more than 10 trades completed, all of them were completed with the seed generated when I started using Bisq. I also have some BSQ in the wallet, but that’s it. I’ll try reinstalling and see if it helps ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/8 "2019-08-01T09:58:33Z")
UPD: reinstalled, restored backup, still over 6 GB of virtual memory usage. ![image](https://bisq.community/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6857f981396dcd449dad368b15b74e8c9d709c3a.png) ---
**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/9 "2019-08-01T10:18:42Z")
CPU=36% seems also quite high. CPU=6% on my Debian. I wouldn’t be surprised if this has something to do specifically with Ubuntu. There were already discussions about this kind of issue on the github. ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/10 "2019-08-01T17:16:54Z")
I think we can dismiss the 36% CPU because it’s a third gen core i5 ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/11 "2019-08-01T17:19:22Z")
Should I open an issue on GitHub? ---
**Author:** ![i-forest](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/i-forest/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@i-forest](https://bisq.community/u/i-forest)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/12 "2019-08-01T20:32:18Z")
My Ubuntu 18.04 with I7 ca. 1,3GB ![grafik](https://bisq.community/uploads/default/original/2X/1/182698e7a4e9f7aa7ba4b0977c70ac73cf64d890.png) ---
**Author:** ![goraelec](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/goraelec/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@goraelec](https://bisq.community/u/goraelec)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/13 "2019-08-04T11:33:49Z")
Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? ---
**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/14 "2019-08-04T15:55:25Z")
I’ve already seen one resembling issue on the github. Best thing is to open an issue on github, but I feel this may not be easy to solve. ---
**Author:** ![chr](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/chr/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@chr](https://bisq.community/u/chr)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/15 "2019-08-05T12:10:00Z")
can you maybe create a memory snapshot with [https://visualvm.github.io](https://visualvm.github.io) process manager output does not really say much about memory usage. ---
**Author:** ![ajas](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/ajas/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@ajas](https://bisq.community/u/ajas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/16 "2019-08-22T16:06:28Z")
I am cocerned as well. Bisq always consumes 100% of one CPU (on debian). What is it doing all the time? PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S % **CPU** %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1707 user 20 0 12,430g 2,056g 72180 S **100,0** 6,6 116:36.99 Bisq ---
**Author:** ![zedzeroth](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/zedzeroth/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@zedzeroth](https://bisq.community/u/zedzeroth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/17 "2019-08-25T09:40:09Z")
1.1 GB here. Why is it so high? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![merenkov](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/merenkov/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@merenkov](https://bisq.community/u/merenkov)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/18 "2019-08-31T19:00:56Z")
every since the dao implementation it has been high. 4.5gb on my mac ---
**Author:** ![fqjffhjahfjsa](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/fqjffhjahfjsa/32/2404_2.png) [@fqjffhjahfjsa](https://bisq.community/u/fqjffhjahfjsa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bisq-is-using-6-2-gb-of-ram-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/8169/19 "2019-10-17T01:21:12Z")
Me over here with my 4 GB laptop. Now I feel like I must test it on low-power hardware.