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Merge pull request #533 from ritfed-tabryg/ops-hw-requirements

Suggest hardware requirements for planets and stars.

commit8f3f3cdb1fb0140cc5e4fc3bd49a834b1b66780f authorDavid Kerschner <david@tlon.io> dateMon 4 Jan 2021, 17:52 (6 years ago) parent6a2dd4af652850
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ See our [Guide to Breaches](https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/guide-to-breaches)
3838- If you distribute planets, boot and run your star on the Arvo network, or the
3939 planets won't be able to boot for the first time or connect unless they
4040 transfer to a different star.
41−- A star is networking infrastructure. For that reason, the machine running your star or galaxy must have sufficient bandwidth and processing power for your dependent planets.
41+- A star is networking infrastructure. For that reason, the machine running your star or galaxy must have sufficient bandwidth, storage, and processing power for your dependent planets. Until event log pruning is implemented, expect ships to consume more disk space every year; stars looking to serve around 100 planets will want to ensure around 50GB of space per year of operation.
4242- When messaging others, communicate using your star only when speaking in an official/infrastructural capacity. Otherwise, use your personal planet.
4343
4444### Taxes
content/using/operations/using-your-ship.md+6
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ Delete the tar file, and, after installing Urbit on your new server, start your
6767./urbit your-urbit
6868```
6969
70+### Hardware requirements
71+
72+Urbit can run on any x86 computer (unofficial, unsupported [ARM binaries](https://botter-nidnul.github.io/AArch64_Urbit_Static_Binaries.html) are also available), ideally with at least 2GB of RAM.
73+
74+Urbit maintains a persistent log of the history of your ship. Eventually this log will be automatically trimmed when necessary, but for now it only increases in size. An actively used planet will consume 5-50 GB of storage space per year of operation.
75+
7076### Console
7177
7278Your Urbit terminal is separated into two parts: the prompt (the bottom line) and the record (everything above that). The record is shared; all the output from all the apps in your command set appears in it. The prompt is multiplexed.