Added memory requirements based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5423851

Sytse Sijbrandij · Dmitriy Zaporozhets
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doc/install/requirements.md
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 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).
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+# Memory requirements
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+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.
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54	54	If you have troubles installing GitLab following the official installation guide
55	55	or want to share your experience installing GitLab on a not officially supported
56	56	platform, please follow the the contribution guide (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
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	60	+# Memory requirements
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	62	+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.
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