Subsonic memory usage

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 *** Introduction
-Owncloud is probably the easiest way to handle your media, but Subsonic is another alternative and has a mobile app which can be used to conveniently play your music.  Unless you particularly prefer Subsonic it's probably better to stick with Owncloud and skip this section.
+Owncloud is probably the easiest way to handle your media, but Subsonic is another alternative and has a mobile app which can be used to conveniently play your music.  Unless you particularly prefer Subsonic it's probably better to stick with Owncloud and skip this section. Another limitation of Subsonic is that it requires Java, which uses a lot of RAM, so it may be better to only install it on systems with 1GB or more of memory and also increases the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_surface]["attack surface"]].
 
 The method of installing Subsonic described here is not ideal, but works. The main issue is that the Debian package supplied from sourceforge contains a licensing [[https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures][antifeature]], which needs to be removed in order to achieve a fully free system.
 *** Installing the Server