Any idea to reduce RAM consumption?

[ivancarlosti]

This is my docker compose file, I limited it to consume 512MB RAM but it tops all these 512MB since startup.

name: pdf

services:
  stirling-pdf:
    image: stirlingtools/stirling-pdf:latest
    container_name: pdf
    deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 512M
    ports:
      - '8020:8080'
    volumes:
      - ./trainingData:/usr/share/tessdata #Required for extra OCR languages
      - ./extraConfigs:/configs
      - ./customFiles:/customFiles
      - ./logs:/logs
    environment:
      DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY: "true"
      INSTALL_BOOK_AND_ADVANCED_HTML_OPS: "true"
      SYSTEM_DEFAULTLOCALE: en-US
      LANGS: en-US
      SYSTEM_MAXFILESIZE: "25"
      SYSTEM_GOOGLEVISIBILITY: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

There is any way to let it run without eating too much RAM, at least when not doing any operation?

Thanks a lot and regards

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There are two similar closed issues regarding high RAM usage with Stirling-PDF. One of them suggests that the high RAM usage is likely due to Java's heap memory. You can try setting a maximum heap size to limit RAM usage. Additionally, consider performing thread limiting and making changes to garbage collection settings to reduce RAM usage ^[1][2].

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[Frooodle]

The security version uses much more ram than non security
If you are trying to minimise ram removing this may help

Sadly if you need these features 400-500mb is baseline for the security and database requirements

[ivancarlosti]

Do I have any security issues if I do not enable it? It's not clear about what it does :/

[Frooodle]

It is used to provide login functionality should you want that

[Frooodle]

Depending on your functionality requirements also using our ultra lite docker might help

[ivancarlosti]

Depending on your functionality requirements also using our ultra lite docker might help

I use the feature compress-pdf, it's only available on full image, but np, thanks a lot!

[Frooodle]

You may have to reset the docker image (delete and redownload it) when you switch the security flag off for all changes to apply
It's not really meant as a flag to turn on and off
Things like database is only required in security version for user credentials without In memory database etc should reduce