Merge pull request #39 from prometheus/beorn7/doc-improve

Add note about memory usage during build.

Merge pull request #39 from prometheus/beorn7/doc-improve
Add note about memory usage during build.
ffde4f40 · Björn Rabenstein · 85074f9f · 522aeed9 · ffde4f40
Commit ffde4f40 authored Feb 12, 2015 by Björn Rabenstein
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@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ cd prometheus
 make build
 ```

+Note that building requires a fair amount of memory. You should have
+at least 2GiB of RAM available.
+
 If you encounter problems building Prometheus, see [the more detailed build
 instructions](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus#use-make) in the
 README.md.