-and container, Ceph needs enough memory available to provide good and stable
-performance. As a rule of thumb, for roughly 1 TiB of data, 1 GiB of memory
-will be used by an OSD. OSD caching will use additional memory.
+and containers, Ceph needs enough memory available to provide excellent and
+stable performance.
+
+As a rule of thumb, for roughly **1 TiB of data, 1 GiB of memory** will be used
+by an OSD. Especially during recovery, rebalancing or backfilling.
+
+The daemon itself will use additional memory. The Bluestore backend of the
+daemon requires by default **3-5 GiB of memory** (adjustable). In contrast, the
+legacy Filestore backend uses the OS page cache and the memory consumption is
+generally related to PGs of an OSD daemon.