Increase memory vs number of dynamos for Heroku? - heroku

Ive deployed Prisma to Heroku: https://www.prisma.io/blog/heroku-integration-homihof6eifi/
The only traffic to my site is myself testing it. I started out with 1 hobby dynamo but the 'resting' memory usage was around 95% and I'm was getting some "Memory quota exceeded" errors.
To try and fix this I increased the dynamo count to 2. Im now paying $50 per month.
Despite this Im still getting memory usage warnings. $50 a month for a service thats struggling with very low traffic seems crazy. Have I set something up wrong? Should I have increased the memory limit rather than number of dynamos?

A future release of Prisma will introduce significant improvements to memory handling. While operating Prisma on a 512 mb dyno is certainly possible, you will currently have a much better experience upgrading to a 1024 mb dyno. Running a single large dyno will provide a much bigger improvement than running two small dynos.
Hope this helps :-)

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I have a web app on heroku which all the time is using around 300% of the allowed RAM (512 MB). I see my logs full of Error R14 (Memory quota exceeded) [an entry every second]. Although in bad condition, my app still works.
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To the best of my knowledge Heroku will not take action even if you continue to exceed the memory requirements. However, I don't think the availability of the full 1 GB of overage (out of the 1.5 GB that you are consuming) is guaranteed, or is guaranteed to be physical memory at all times. Also, if you are running close to 1.5 GB, then you risk going over the hard 1.5 GB limit at which point your dyno will be terminated.
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