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18c7697b08STomoko Uchida# System Requirements
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20*2ebc57a4SAdrien GrandApache Lucene runs on Java 17 or greater.
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22c7697b08STomoko UchidaIt is also recommended to always use the latest update version of your
23c7697b08STomoko UchidaJava VM, because bugs may affect Lucene. An overview of known JVM bugs
24*2ebc57a4SAdrien Grandcan be found on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/JavaBugs
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26c7697b08STomoko UchidaWith all Java versions it is strongly recommended to not use experimental
27c7697b08STomoko Uchida`-XX` JVM options.
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29c7697b08STomoko UchidaCPU, disk and memory requirements are based on the many choices made in
30c7697b08STomoko Uchidaimplementing Lucene (document size, number of documents, and number of
31c7697b08STomoko Uchidahits retrieved to name a few). The benchmarks page has some information
32c7697b08STomoko Uchidarelated to performance on particular platforms.
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