From 73cf7ee8232565f33fe74da1b6bff806aab2d759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Allen Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:23:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README: update minimum system requirements and recommend OpenSSL fixes #6513 --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 20a7afb43..017917756 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -56,7 +56,12 @@ The canonical download instructions for IPFS are over at: https://docs.ipfs.io/g ### 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. +IPFS can run on most Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. We recommend running it on a machine with at least 2 GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores (go-ipfs is highly parallel). On systems with less memory, it may not be completely stable. + +If your system is resource constrained, we recommend: + +1. Installing OpenSSL and rebuilding go-ipfs manually with `make build GOFLAGS=-tags=openssl`. See the [download and compile](#download-and-compile-ipfs) section for more information on compiling go-ipfs. +2. Initializing your daemon with `ipfs init --profile=lowpower` ### Install prebuilt packages