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| author | Sytse Sijbrandij <sytse@dosire.com> | 2013-03-23 21:34:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com> | 2013-03-26 10:46:53 +0200 |
| commit | 77c802a4fe2ff598d6ce30bc6c042c5640d6922f (patch) | |
| tree | e3105019e177fe8ea4032f63024c3092d1d7c43b /doc/install/requirements.md | |
| parent | ec1a37875d2be29835d0ac165db22a19ca269e38 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-77c802a4fe2ff598d6ce30bc6c042c5640d6922f.tar.gz | |
Combine it with the memory requirements that where already there.
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diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index d71b8f54630..34475f20486 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ -# Hardware +# Memory -We recommend you to run GitLab on a server with at least 1GB RAM. +We recommend you to run GitLab on a server with at least 1GB of RAM memory. You can use it with 512MB of memory but you need to setup unicorn to use only 1 worker and you need at least 200MB of swap. On a server with 1.5GB of memory you are able to support 1000+ users. -The necessary hard disk space largely depends on the size of the repos you want -to use GitLab with. But as a *rule of thumb* you should have at least as much -free space as your all repos combined take up. +# Hard disk capacity + +The necessary hard disk space largely depends on the size of the repos you want +to store in GitLab. But as a *rule of thumb* you should have at least twice as much +free space as your all repos combined take up. Apart from a local hard drive you can also mount a volume that supports the network file system (NFS) protocol. This volume mich be located on a file server, a network attached storage (NAS) device, a storage area network (SAN) or on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume. # Operating Systems @@ -54,9 +56,3 @@ some work on your part. If you have troubles installing GitLab following the official installation guide or want to share your experience installing GitLab on a not officially supported platform, please follow the the contribution guide (see CONTRIBUTING.md). - - - -# Memory requirements - -To run GitLab without any changes you need 1GB of memory. You can use it with 512MB of memory but you need to setup unicorn to use only 1 worker and you need at least 200MB of swap. On a server with 1.5GB of memory you are able to support 1000+ users. |