From d8535aa8d47f332c1ad25183ce4fd5dfafaccae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 03:29:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document realistic server memory minimum --- docs/Install.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/Install.md b/docs/Install.md index f000cd3d..3d5627c6 100644 --- a/docs/Install.md +++ b/docs/Install.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Other systems are not officially supported but may work with degraded functional
-You will also need at least 500MB of RAM (bare minimum), 2GB or greater is recommended. You may be able to reduce the RAM requirements if you disable all the chrome-based archiving methods with [`CHROME_ENABLED=False`](https://archivebox.github.io/abx-plugins/#chrome) (or its `USE_CHROME` alias). +You will also need at least 1GB of RAM, and 2GB or greater is recommended. You may be able to reduce crawl-time RAM pressure if you disable all the chrome-based archiving methods with [`CHROME_ENABLED=False`](https://archivebox.github.io/abx-plugins/#chrome) (or its `USE_CHROME` alias). It's also recommended to use a filesystem with compression and/or [deduplication](https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ixsystems-and-klara-systems-celebrate-valentines-day-with-a-heartfelt-donation-of-fast-dedupe-to-openzfs-and-truenas/) (e.g. [ZFS](https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/index.html) or BTRFS) for maximum efficiency.