<p>As all answers, it depends on your setup. Currently I run the plutus-playground-server setup on a VM with 8gb of ram available (but the playground only uses 1gb of that space). The thing to consider and optimize is the way you run you VM. I run my VM with the libvirt stack (this hypervisor runs near native hardware speeds, very lightweigth). Also I do not render a DE on my VM. I just SSH into the VM and only use the terminal, this also saves a lot of ram usage. So I guess that 2gb will suffice bare minimum (I have not tested this).</p>
<p>a good guide for this hypervisor: <a href="https://octetz.com/docs/2020/2020-05-06-linux-hypervisor-setup/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://octetz.com/docs/2020/2020-05-06-linux-hypervisor-setup/</a></p>
<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I have seen, that my setup needs around 12GB. Maybe you can optimize it more, but for me it was around 12GB.</p>

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<p>I am facing this issues when running</p>
<pre><code>$ nix-build -A plutus-playground.server
&gt; error: 1 dependencies of derivation
&gt; '/nix/store/39qxl421bhkzks2zrra7vy3yl6qqhsib-zlib-lib-zlib-0.6.2.3-config.drv'
&gt; failed to build
</code></pre>
<p>It is probably RAM size issue. What is minimum RAM for running plutus-playground-server on Ubuntu VirtualBox?</p>

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I would be surprised if it worked in less that 8G of RAM. Having a decent amount of swap would not hurt either.
Erik de Castro Lopo
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I increased to 10GB fo Virtual Box and `$nix-build -A plutus-playground.server` run successfully. Swap set to 2GB in VM
Miro
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What is minimum RAM for running plutus-playground-server on Ubuntu VirtualBox?
# What is minimum RAM for running plutus-playground-server on Ubuntu VirtualBox?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-13)

I am facing this issues when running
$ nix-build -A plutus-playground.server
> error: 1 dependencies of derivation
> '/nix/store/39qxl421bhkzks2zrra7vy3yl6qqhsib-zlib-lib-zlib-0.6.2.3-config.drv'
> failed to build

It is probably RAM size issue. What is minimum RAM for running plutus-playground-server on Ubuntu VirtualBox?

**Tags:** plutus-pioneer-program, plutus-playground, nix
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I would be surprised if it worked in less that 8G of RAM. Having a decent amount of swap would not hurt either.  
> **username_0**: I increased to 10GB fo Virtual Box and `$nix-build -A plutus-playground.server` run successfully. Swap set to 2GB in VM  
> **username_2**: Welcome to Cardano SE! As a new user be sure to take the [Tour].  
> **username_2**: This question could be improved and is not generating good quality answers, please read [answer] and the relevant pinned messages in [help] if you are going to answer this question.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2022-01-18. Score: 1

As all answers, it depends on your setup. Currently I run the plutus-playground-server setup on a VM with 8gb of ram available (but the playground only uses 1gb of that space). The thing to consider and optimize is the way you run you VM. I run my VM with the libvirt stack (this hypervisor runs near native hardware speeds, very lightweigth). Also I do not render a DE on my VM. I just SSH into the VM and only use the terminal, this also saves a lot of ram usage. So I guess that 2gb will suffice bare minimum (I have not tested this).

a good guide for this hypervisor: <https://octetz.com/docs/2020/2020-05-06-linux-hypervisor-setup/>

Good luck!


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### Answer by username_4 on 2022-01-18. Score: 0

I have seen, that my setup needs around 12GB. Maybe you can optimize it more, but for me it was around 12GB.


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