From cae3b226c95378dd9f7e81d196169ecf45c7dc33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Mayer Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 18:26:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Update requirements in README.md --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e492d336b..97332f6f3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -43,10 +43,12 @@ on [docs.photoprism.org](https://docs.photoprism.org/getting-started/) - all you need is a Web browser and Docker to run the server. It is available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. We recommend hosting PhotoPrism on a server with **at least 2 cores** and **4 GB of memory**. +Also make sure it has at least 4 GB of swap configured, so that indexing doesn't cause +restarts when there are memory usage spikes. Beyond these minimum requirements, the amount of RAM should match the number of cores. Indexing large photo and video collections significantly benefits from fast, local SSD storage, -and lots of memory for caching. Especially the conversion of RAW images and the transcoding of +and lots of memory for caching. Especially the conversion of RAW images and the transcoding of videos are very demanding. ## Roadmap ##