RPi 4 - Minimum memory requirement?

[DaveBKC]

One thing that's not in the requirements section is the recommended minimum amount of memory. From that, I assume that most people are using the 2gb model.

Question: Is there any benefit to running BirdNET-Pi on a 4gb or even 8gb device?

[DD4WH]

Dave,
I have tried BirdNET-Pi on all models of Raspberry Pi 4B --> 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB.
I have not tested systematically, but it seems to run on all models in the same way.

[ehpersonal38]

My RPi4B (used exclusively for BirdNET-Pi) averages about 900MB ram, with peaks up to 1.2GB, for what it's worth.

[DaveBKC]

Thanks folks! Both answers answer the question, so I had to do an eeny, meeny, miny, moe to pick one.

[srchild]

Maybe the proposed change to making use of Ramdisk will mean that extra memory may be more relevant in future than at present?

[DaveBKC]

Could well be. With the price of SSD's these days, I ended up using a 240G Kingston in place of an SD card to avoid SD-related issues.