# SpacyNLP loads model twice

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/spacynlp-loads-model-twice/61539>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [April 5, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/spacynlp-loads-model-twice/61539 "2024-04-05T13:14:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/spacynlp-loads-model-twice/61539/1 "2024-04-05T13:14:26Z")

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I have seen this question asked only once before but unanswered - we have noticed our RASA run with SpacyNLP as component in config.yml loads the Spacy model twice and this results in a very big memory footprint (2.5GB whereas the Spacy model is only 500mb):

```auto
2024-04-05 15:08:25 DEBUG rasa.engine.graph - Node 'provide_SpacyNLP1' loading 'SpacyNLP.load' and kwargs: '{}'.
2024-04-05 15:08:25 INFO rasa.nlu.utils.spacy_utils - Trying to load SpaCy model with name 'nl_core_news_lg'.
2024-04-05 15:08:27 DEBUG rasa.engine.graph - Node 'run_SpacyNLP1' loading 'SpacyNLP.load' and kwargs: '{}'.
2024-04-05 15:08:27 INFO rasa.nlu.utils.spacy_utils - Trying to load SpaCy model with name 'nl_core_news_lg'.

```

Is this expected? I have 1 Sanic worker and the only relevant thing in config.yml is

```auto
- name: "SpacyNLP"
   model: "nl_core_news_lg"

```

How do I reduce the memory footprint of RASA?