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| author | Sytse Sijbrandij <sytse@dosire.com> | 2013-03-24 11:02:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com> | 2013-03-26 10:46:53 +0200 |
| commit | 83d3f7e052a93a90366127211e0c700582018584 (patch) | |
| tree | 03c993c0075847dd17ce5462beda6a4bd6c339ed /doc/install/requirements.md | |
| parent | 7e93aaa6e69dc89aacc1b55618c22344928c1be7 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-83d3f7e052a93a90366127211e0c700582018584.tar.gz | |
Better header and detail why you need two times the storage. Also moving memory and storage to the bottom, OS is more important.
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diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index 1628a443f9e..d1431c7eb1b 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -1,15 +1,3 @@ -# Memory - -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. - - -# 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 might 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 ## Linux @@ -41,7 +29,6 @@ GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the near future. Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab. - # Rubies GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 and several Gems with native components. @@ -50,6 +37,17 @@ While it is generally possible to use other Rubies (like some work on your part. +# Memory + +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. + + +# Storage + +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. You need twice the storage because [GitLab satellites](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/structure.md) contain an extra copy of each repo. Apart from a local hard drive you can also mount a volume that supports the network file system (NFS) protocol. This volume might 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. + # Installation troubles and reporting success or failure |