@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ urbit -F zod
115115
116116### Compact State
117117
118+**Note the ship should be shut down before using either of the utilities described below.**
119+
118120Ships currently have a hard 2GB limit on the size of their state. Sometimes the
119121state of long-running, heavily-used ships can exceed the 2GB limit and crash
120122with a `bail: meme` error. To fix this, there are a couple of ways to reduce the
@@ -137,8 +139,6 @@ To run `meld`, you can either do `urbit meld /path/to/pier` or
137139If the meld succeeds, it'll print a memory report and exit. If it exits with
138140`KILLED`, it means it ran out of memory and the meld was aborted.
139141
140−**Note that the ships must not be running when using either of these.**
141−
142142### Dock binary
143143
144144From binary version 1.9 onwards, newly booted ships will have the binary