I did a thread on the same website with different focus: Hint on how to make website generation faster? Since this thread, I updated to Hugo 0.153.0 and removed RSS and it reduced the RAM consumption. I chose to mark the subject as resolved, since it is were “how to reduce ram consumption”. Here i…

If you really, really want all those links to be absolute instead of relative: Replace all the ref shortcode calls with their argument. For example, change this: [ca]({{< ref "/f8/language/ca.md" >}}) To this: [ca](/f8/language/ca) Using this command [1] : find ./content -type f -name "*.md" …

Can't build website with 16GB of RAM (and it crashes my system)

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Jibec January 20, 2026, 6:10am 2

this might answer my question: Hugo sites over 100,000+ pages (issues, remedies)? - #2 by jmooring (using segments)

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Can't build website with 16GB of RAM (and it crashes my system)

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