Stack Sizer

1. Linkwarden Docs: Setup (4 GB memory comfortable, any 2-core machine, ~1.5 GB image plus data; required NEXTAUTH_SECRET, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, MEILI_MASTER_KEY; Postgres 16 and up) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
2. Linkwarden Docs: Running a lighter setup (idle ~350 MB since 2.15, image ~1.5 GB, Meilisearch optional, DISABLE_BROWSER, ARCHIVE_TAKE_COUNT=1, textContent is the main DB growth) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
3. Linkwarden Docs: Environment variables (ARCHIVE_TAKE_COUNT 5, BROWSER_TIMEOUT 5 min, *_MAX_BUFFER 100 MB, MAX_LINKS_PER_USER 30000, ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORK_ACCESS false) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
4. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/linkwarden/linkwarden:v2.16.3 (linux/amd64): 567,246,590 B compressed; layers decompressed and counted: 1,713,869,312 B (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
5. Linkwarden Docs: Preservation (readable, webpage, screenshot and PDF formats on by default; queued worker; files stored per collection on disk or S3) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
6. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.4 Resource Consumption (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
7. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.3 Connections and Authentication (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
8. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.10 Vacuuming (autovacuum settings) (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
9. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.5 Write Ahead Log (max_wal_size) (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
10. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 51.2 How Connections Are Established (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
11. Docker Official Image postgres: documentation (docker-library/docs) (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
12. Docker Hub: library/postgres tag 18.6 (compressed image sizes) (Linkwarden, read 10 Oct 2026)
13. Prisma Docs: Connection pool (Prisma 6 default pool size: physical CPUs × 2 + 1 per client) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
14. linkwarden repository: packages/prisma/package.json at v2.16.3 (Prisma 6) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
15. Meilisearch Docs: Storage (LMDB; 9.1 MB of raw JSON measured at 224 MB on disk and ~305 MB RAM; RAM-to-disk ~1/3 fine; disk use never shrinks) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
16. Docker Hub: getmeili/meilisearch tag v1.13.3 (linux/amd64 95,776,018 B compressed) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
17. linkwarden repository: apps/worker/workers/linkIndexing.ts at v2.16.3 (whole link rows sent to the Meilisearch index 'links' in batches; indexVersion kept in PostgreSQL) (Linkwarden, read 14 Oct 2026)
18. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
19. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
20. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
21. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
22. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
23. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
24. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
25. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
26. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)

Catalog release

2026.10.10

Sizing policy

2026.10.0

Profile Linkwarden

1.0.0

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