# Clarification needed on memory requirements for Docker install

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarification-needed-on-memory-requirements-for-docker-install/151976>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarification-needed-on-memory-requirements-for-docker-install/151976 "2020-05-19T18:51:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarification-needed-on-memory-requirements-for-docker-install/151976/5 "2020-05-19T20:21:10Z")

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> [@maiki](#):
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> Your swap will be part of the disk storage. Your RAM is separate.

Thanks, that answers what I need.

@pfaffman I now understand your answer, thanks for the reply.

As I noted in the other post,

> I know where my problem came from, I was thinking of swap as a part of RAM mapped out as a file, e.g. [RAM drive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive). I guess it is the price I pay for typically using Windows and not Linux.

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