Add system requirements to README, fixes #5136

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Brackett <rob@robbrackett.com>
parent 2a9de81e
......@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Please put all issues regarding the Go IPFS _implementation_ in [this repo](http
- [Security Issues](#security-issues)
- [Install](#install)
- [System Requirements](#system-requirements)
- [Install prebuilt packages](#install-prebuilt-packages)
- [From Linux package managers](#from-linux-package-managers)
- [Build from Source](#build-from-source)
......@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ If the issue is a protocol weakness that cannot be immediately exploited or some
The canonical download instructions for IPFS are over at: http://ipfs.io/docs/install/. It is **highly suggested** you follow those instructions if you are not interested in working on IPFS development.
### System Requirements
IPFS can run on most Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. We recommend running it on a machine with at least 2 GB of RAM (it’ll do fine with only one CPU core), but it should run fine with as little as 1 GB of RAM. On systems with less memory, it may not be completely stable.
### Install prebuilt packages
We host prebuilt binaries over at our [distributions page](https://ipfs.io/ipns/dist.ipfs.io#go-ipfs).
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