X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/0dad470eb968da5902027132547988b2b382ae87..aeeee0d5dab4586d1346db91a76427cc81a95945:/docs/admin/Installation.md diff --git a/docs/admin/Installation.md b/docs/admin/Installation.md index 8ca41e8f..4cd2ad0e 100644 --- a/docs/admin/Installation.md +++ b/docs/admin/Installation.md @@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full planet import 64GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM. -For a full planet install you will need at least 800GB of hard disk space -(take into account that the OSM database is growing fast). SSD disks -will help considerably to speed up import and queries. +For a full planet install you will need at least 900GB of hard disk space. +Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast. +Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended. Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes -at least 2 days. Without SSDs 7-8 days are more realistic. +around 2 days. On traditional spinning disks, 7-8 days are more realistic. ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database