From ab19a966f025a1954c57380b77a7c00a4f7e52be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sytse Sijbrandij Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 14:21:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explain that sidekiq doesn't eat as much ram as some people seem to suspect https://twitter.com/khrogos/status/498062432938782720 --- doc/install/requirements.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index 46a98397aa3..cfd34173ec7 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ Or if you use SSD you can configure 2GB of swap to use two Unicorn workers and h - 32GB supports up to 20,000 users - 64GB supports up to 40,000 users +Notice: The 25 workers of Sidekiq will show up as separate processes in your process overview (such as top or htop) but they share the same RAM allocation since Sidekiq is a multithreaded application. + ### Storage The necessary hard drive 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](structure.md) contain an extra copy of each repo.