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Commit f7e630c4528d0561466ede42d5e4820aa8b4d267

Authored by Sytse Sijbrandij
Committed by Dmitriy Zaporozhets
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Exists in master and in 4 other branches 6-8-stable, 7-0-stable, 7-0-stable-spb, spb-stable

Updating based on Dmitriy his comments.

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doc/install/requirements.md
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37 37 some work on your part.
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40   -# Memory
  40 +# Hardware requirements
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42   -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.
  42 +## CPU
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  44 +We recommend a processor with **4 cores**. At a minimum you need a processor with 2 cores to responsively run an unmodified installation.
44 45  
45   -# Storage
  46 +## Memory
46 47  
47   -The necessary hard disk space largely depends on the size of the repos you want
  48 +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. The minimal requirement for an unmodified installation is 768MB. With 1.5GB of memory you should be able to support 1000+ users.
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  50 +## Storage
  51 +
  52 +The necessary hard drive space largely depends on the size of the repos you want
48 53 to store in GitLab. But as a *rule of thumb* you should have at least twice as much
49 54 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.
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  56 +If you have enough RAM memory and a recent CPU the speed of GitLab is mainly limited by hard drive seek times. Having a fast drive (7200 RPM and up) or a solid state drive (SSD) will improve the responsiveness of GitLab.
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51 58  
52 59 # Installation troubles and reporting success or failure
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