README: update minimum system requirements and recommend OpenSSL
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Steven Allen committed
Jul 29, 2019 at 16:23 UTC
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@@ -56,7 +56,12 @@ The canonical download instructions for IPFS are over at: https://docs.ipfs.io/g
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### System Requirements
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-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.
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+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.
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+If your system is resource constrained, we recommend:
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+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.
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+2. Initializing your daemon with `ipfs init --profile=lowpower`
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### Install prebuilt packages
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