# A lot of memory is used, is this normal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\ **Created:** [April 30, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/a-lot-of-memory-is-used-is-this-normal/11209 "2025-04-30T08:52:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![5idu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/5idu/32/6838_2.png) [@5idu](https://forum.gitea.com/u/5idu)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/a-lot-of-memory-is-used-is-this-normal/11209/1 "2025-04-30T08:52:16Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/gitea/original/2X/6/6e05238fee2b01ebfa0793cbfed210713c5a3e81.png) The above is a screenshot of the content monitoring of the gitea service running for 2 days. It can be seen that the memory is always increasing and there is no sign of release. I deployed it using the gitea:nightly version of the image. Can someone help me figure out what is causing the memory usage to keep growing? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![5idu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/5idu/32/6838_2.png) [@5idu](https://forum.gitea.com/u/5idu)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/a-lot-of-memory-is-used-is-this-normal/11209/2 "2025-04-30T08:52:57Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/gitea/original/2X/2/2078cba4fdead9b3009ce79109a1143fff589aad.png) The above is the statistics seen from the gitea management backend. ---
**Author:** ![ModerateWinGuy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/moderatewinguy/32/7104_2.png) [@ModerateWinGuy](https://forum.gitea.com/u/ModerateWinGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/a-lot-of-memory-is-used-is-this-normal/11209/3 "2025-09-23T13:16:43Z")
I have the same issue, it constantly creeps up until it hits the 4gb resource cap I’ve set for the container and then I have to restart it to get it down again.