# Cache size recommandation **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 27, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/cache-size-recommandation/562 "2021-07-27T08:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/cache-size-recommandation/562/10 "2022-03-23T15:53:07Z")
There is a command in Kopia CLI which you can run to estimate how much cache you should provide. This is for metadata, which is by far the most critical. If you run `kopia blob stats --prefix=q` which you then should multiply by 2x up to 5x as posted here: [https://kopia.discourse.group/t/cache-directories/98](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/cache-directories/98) When I run this on my 1 TB repo, I am getting this… [root@kopia repos]# kopia blob stats --prefix=q Count: 100 Total: 1.7 GB Average: 16.7 MB Histogram: ``` 0 between 0 B and 10 B (total 0 B) 0 between 10 B and 100 B (total 0 B) 0 between 100 B and 1 KB (total 0 B) 3 between 1 KB and 10 KB (total 25.4 KB) 4 between 10 KB and 100 KB (total 67.7 KB) 0 between 100 KB and 1 MB (total 0 B) 6 between 1 MB and 10 MB (total 27.4 MB) 87 between 10 MB and 100 MB (total 1.6 GB) ``` So… 1.6 x 5 is a bit above 5 GB, but I don’t expect this repo to grow much larger, so I’d be probably okay with even 2 GB… --- _[View the full topic](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/cache-size-recommandation/562)._