Some background on Redis and Sidekiq requirements.

doc/install/requirements.md

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 ## Database
 
-If you want to run the database separately, the **recommended** database size is **1 MB per user**
+If you want to run the database separately, the **recommended** database size is **1 MB per user**.
+
+## Redis and Sidekiq
+
+Redis stores all user sessions and the background task queue.
+The storage requirements for Redis are minimal, about 1kB per user.
+Sidekiq processes the background jobs with a multithreaded process.
+This process starts with the entire Rails stack (200MB+) but it can grow over time due to memory leaks.
+On a very active server (10.000 active users) the Sidekiq process can use 1GB+ of memory.
 
 ## Supported webbrowsers