Seafile — system requirements

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Minimum RAM

2 GB

“**Memory requirements**: 2G”

Scope: Seafile Community Edition, general — source states these figures apply to all deployment scenarios (Docker, binary, K8s alike) unless otherwise specified · official source · retrieved 2026-08-02

Minimum CPU cores

2 cores

“**CPU requirements**: 2 cores, more than 2G Hz are recommended”

Scope: Seafile Community Edition, general — source states these figures apply to all deployment scenarios (Docker, binary, K8s alike) unless otherwise specified (2 cores; >2GHz clock speed recommended, not additional cores) · official source · retrieved 2026-08-02

No official figure published for: recommended RAM, recommended CPU cores

Page states these figures ARE the minimum system hardware requirements for CE; no separate general recommended RAM/CPU tier exists for CE. Seafile Pro's 4-core/4GB figures are a different, separately-licensed product tier, not a recommended upgrade path for CE (Defect Class #2/#3) — not harvested here.

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External services

mariadb (required) — source
redis (required) — source

Container

Image: seafileltd/seafile-mc · compressed size (amd64): 490 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64 · source, retrieved 2026-08-02

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