Stack Sizer

1. Immich Docs: Requirements (RAM minimum 6 GB, recommended 8 GB; 4 GB with ML disabled; CPU 2 / 4 cores; thumbnails and transcodes +10-20%; database 1-3 GB, at least 2 GB RAM) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
2. Immich Docs: FAQ (disable machine learning; lowering CPU and RAM; 2-3 concurrent ML jobs can max a CPU; non-root user; ML workers out of memory) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
3. Immich Docs: Backup and restore (daily database dumps in UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups, keep 14; back up library, upload and profile; restore from the UI or psql) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
4. Immich Docs: Config file (default ML URL http://immich-machine-learning:3003, CLIP ViT-B-32__openai, faces buffalo_l, OCR PP-OCRv5_mobile, database dump daily 02:00, keep 14) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
5. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:v3.3.3 (linux/amd64, anonymous token): 611,460,416 B compressed; layers decompressed and counted: 1,731,393,536 B (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
6. Docker Hub: valkey/valkey tag 9.1.2 (linux/amd64 44,768,058 B compressed; the digest pinned upstream is a 9.1.2 build too) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
7. immich repository: docker/docker-compose.yml at v3.3.3 (server 2283:2283, machine-learning, valkey/valkey:9, ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0, shm_size 128mb) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
8. immich-app/base-images: postgres/postgresql.ssd.conf (shared_buffers 512MB, work_mem 16MB, max_wal_size 5GB, wal_compression on) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
9. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0 (index digest bcf63357 as pinned upstream; linux/amd64): 205,280,433 B compressed; decompressed 763,875,840 B (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
10. Immich Docs: Searching (CLIP models; default ViT-B-32__openai peak RSS 1,004 MiB, measured without acceleration) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
11. Immich Docs: Environment variables (DB_* and REDIS_* defaults, IMMICH_PORT 2283 / 3003, MACHINE_LEARNING_MODEL_TTL 300 s, DB_STORAGE_TYPE) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
12. Hugging Face: immich-app/ViT-B-32__openai (ONNX textual 254,193,396 B + visual 351,613,724 B) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
13. Hugging Face: immich-app/buffalo_l (ONNX detection 16,923,827 B + recognition 174,383,860 B) (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
14. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:v3.3.3 (linux/amd64, anonymous token): 271,038,696 B compressed; layers decompressed and counted: 769,134,080 B (Immich, read 14 Oct 2026)
15. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
16. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
17. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
18. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
19. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
20. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
21. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
22. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
23. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)

Catalog release

2026.10.10

Sizing policy

2026.10.0

Profile Immich

1.0.0

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