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@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ Note that the production web server container will bind to port 80, so if you al
 
 You should be able to run Open edX on any platform that supports Docker, including Mac OS and Windows. Tutor was tested under various versions of Ubuntu and Mac OS.
 
-At a minimum, the server running the containers should have 2 Gb of RAM; otherwise, the deployment procedure will crash during migrations (see the :ref:`troubleshooting` section).
+At a minimum, the server running the containers should have 4 Gb of RAM; otherwise, the deployment procedure will crash during migrations (see the :ref:`troubleshooting` section).
 
 Also, the host running the containers should be a 64 bit platform. (images are not built for i386 systems)