# Current state of badger crashes

**URL:** <https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/current-state-of-badger-crashes/7602>\
**Category:** Dev\
**Tags:** badger\
**Created:** [July 8, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/current-state-of-badger-crashes/7602 "2020-07-08T14:21:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/current-state-of-badger-crashes/7602/5 "2020-07-08T16:09:57Z")

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> [@ibrahim](#):
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> There were multiple reports about high memory usage of the decompression pool and this commit reduced the memory consumption. Without this commit, dgraph (and badger with compression) will use more memory

Would it adversely impact the memory requirements/recommendations for Badger and Dgraph?

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