Requirements are missing in readme

[vguleria1108]

I am trying to deploy photon on elasticbean but my instance keeps stopping, so if you can add minimum requirements required than it will be helpful.

[kenseii]

Hi @vguleria1108 did you find the answer for this? i am trying to deploy photon as well

[lonvia]

The instance at photon.komoot.io currently runs at a machine with 64GB RAM and 6 CPUs. But that's on the upper end of what you need. 32GB RAM will do for less busy installations, maybe even 16GB are enough. I have no reliable numbers for minimum requirements which is why the ticket is still open.

This is all for running a planet-wide photon from the pre-computed data dumps we provide. If you want to create the database yourself, the hardware requirements for Nominatim apply.

[akatie]

The deployment was successful.

[lonvia]

On what kind of hardware?

[otbutz]

@lonvia we're running Photon successfully with a Europe dataset using -Xms2G -Xmx2G on VMs with at least 4 cores and 12GB RAM. For the duration of the import we're using -Xms5G -Xmx5G.