Full text search needs little more than stack space to perform merges, but it runs much faster with a good chunk of RAM to cache the tips of posting lists. If you dropped an SSD into one of these, the requirement for RAM to achieve good performance might disappear altogether.
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How did you approximate how much memory per user for full text search?
Well, I didn't. :)
Full text search needs little more than stack space to perform merges, but it runs much faster with a good chunk of RAM to cache the tips of posting lists. If you dropped an SSD into one of these, the requirement for RAM to achieve good performance might disappear altogether.