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18# System Requirements
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20Apache Lucene runs on Java 17 or greater.
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22It is also recommended to always use the latest update version of your
23Java VM, because bugs may affect Lucene. An overview of known JVM bugs
24can be found on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/JavaBugs
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26With all Java versions it is strongly recommended to not use experimental
27`-XX` JVM options.
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29CPU, disk and memory requirements are based on the many choices made in
30implementing Lucene (document size, number of documents, and number of
31hits retrieved to name a few). The benchmarks page has some information
32related to performance on particular platforms.
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