Dgraph memory issues

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Dgraph eats through 4gb of memory. I’m kind of on a shoestring budget here, how can I avoid this?

What version of Dgraph are you using?

Dgraph Version
$ dgraph version

Dgraph version   : v21.12.0
Dgraph codename  : zion
Dgraph SHA-256   : 078c75df9fa1057447c8c8afc10ea57cb0a29dfb22f9e61d8c334882b4b4eb37
Commit SHA-1     : d62ed5f15
Commit timestamp : 2021-12-02 21:20:09 +0530
Branch           : HEAD
Go version       : go1.17.3
jemalloc enabled : true

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Have you tried reproducing the issue with the latest release?

Currently experiencing this on the latest release

What is the hardware spec (RAM, OS)?

 OS: Debian 10 buster
 Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64
 Uptime: 6h 17m
 Packages: 900
 Shell: zsh 5.7.1
 CPU: AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core @ 2x 2GHz
 GPU: bochsdrmfb
 RAM: 3528MiB / 3946MiB

Steps to reproduce the issue (command/config used to run Dgraph).

No specific steps, just try to stuff 10gb of data into dgraph where the dataset has 1 bi-directional relation between the node types.

Expected behaviour and actual result.

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Crash logs

crash (100.5 KB)