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shreyj
shreyj

Reputation: 1807

Heroku Error R14 (Memory quota exceeded) consequences?

I have a web app on heroku which all the time is using around 300% of the allowed RAM (512 MB). I see my logs full of Error R14 (Memory quota exceeded) [an entry every second]. Although in bad condition, my app still works.

Apart from degraded performance, are there any other consequences also which I should be aware of ( like heroku be charging extra for anything related to this issue, scheduled jobs might fail etc) ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3060

Answers (2)

Olney1
Olney1

Reputation: 772

I also get the following every time I run a specific task on my Heroku app and check heroku logs --tail:

Process running mem=626M(121.6%)
Error R14 (Memory quota exceeded)

My solution would be to check out Celery and Heroku's documentation on this.

Celery is an open source asynchronous task queue, or job queue, which makes it very easy to offload work out of the synchronous request lifecycle of a web app onto a pool of task workers to perform jobs asynchronously.

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Gorcester
Andrew Gorcester

Reputation: 19983

To the best of my knowledge Heroku will not take action even if you continue to exceed the memory requirements. However, I don't think the availability of the full 1 GB of overage (out of the 1.5 GB that you are consuming) is guaranteed, or is guaranteed to be physical memory at all times. Also, if you are running close to 1.5 GB, then you risk going over the hard 1.5 GB limit at which point your dyno will be terminated.

Upvotes: 2

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