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Update the minimum system requirements #2835

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https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/install.html?highlight=RAM#system-requirements documents the minimum requirements ...

Hardware : ScanCode will run best with a modern X86 processor and at least 4GB of RAM and 500MB of disk. These are bare minimum requirements.
Supported operating systems: ScanCode should run on these 64-bit OSes running X86_64 processors:
Linux: on recent 64-bit Linux distributions,
Mac: on recent 64-bit macOS (10.14 and up),
Windows: on Windows 10 and up,
FreeBSD,

4GB and 500MB is on the low end and we want a 64 bits processor. We may run OK on Apple ARM M1 too though this is not tested and likely requires the x86 emulation mode.

To do this correctly, the following should be done:

  • Run tests on multiple machines using the release archive. This can be done using a GH action or azure free. Collect the installed size on disk and get some memory info when running a simple scan.

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