Syracuse web server on Linux

This document describes the minimum configuration requirements when installing the Syracuse web server on a Linux x64 release 6.4 server.

Category Configuration requirements
Operating system
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux
Prior to 2022 R4 Linux Server x64 release 7 Linux x64 release 7
From 2022 R4 to 2024 R2 Linux Server x64 release 8 Linux x64 release 8
Since 2025 R1 Linux Server x64 release 9 Linux x64 release 9

Check the list of prerequisites for Red Hat and Oracle here.
Server
  • Industry-standard server or virtual machine.
  • Processors:
    • Recommended: Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 or later, E7 v3 or later
    • AMD OPTERON™ or EPYC™
    • Avoid low energy processors, best performance with a clock speed above 2.4 GHz
  • At least one dedicated processor.
  • Node.js can be installed with multiple instances (1 processor per instance in this case).
RAM
  • 1 GB per Syracuse node.js process (1 Syracuse node.js process for 30 users for most cases).
  • Specific use cases might require more memory. For further information, consult the Node.js sizing recommendations.
Disk space
  • 1 GB
Others
  • A JDK or a Java Runtime Environment version 8 must be installed.