# Memory management and oops

**URL:** <https://community.cratedb.com/t/memory-management-and-oops/396>\
**Category:** CrateDB\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/memory-management-and-oops/396 "2020-05-21T18:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![miguel.arregui](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/miguel.arregui/32/126_2.png) [@miguel.arregui](https://community.cratedb.com/u/miguel.arregui)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/memory-management-and-oops/396/1 "2020-05-21T18:06:31Z")

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What memory settings should I use?, is there a limit?, what does affect it?, and how is this all related to oops?

In relation with [https://crate.io/docs/crate/howtos/en/latest/performance/memory.html#gigabytes-total](https://crate.io/docs/crate/howtos/en/latest/performance/memory.html#gigabytes-total)

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**Author:** ![miguel.arregui](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/miguel.arregui/32/126_2.png) [@miguel.arregui](https://community.cratedb.com/u/miguel.arregui)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/memory-management-and-oops/396/2 "2020-05-31T09:43:01Z")

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Hey,

there is a very relevant answer to this question [here](https://community.cratedb.com/t/data-too-large-i-have-24gb-or-ram-for-3-nodes-and-12-cores/420/2).