From 04e3accd7d5a43391e88f17d9f6a5fa8143eed48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mmomjian <50788000+mmomjian@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 06:00:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] info on preload

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 docs/docs/install/environment-variables.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/docs/install/environment-variables.md b/docs/docs/install/environment-variables.md
index 16f05b6338807..0421eeff38c96 100644
--- a/docs/docs/install/environment-variables.md
+++ b/docs/docs/install/environment-variables.md
@@ -181,7 +181,11 @@ Redis (Sentinel) URL example JSON before encoding:
 
 :::info
 
-Other machine learning parameters can be tuned from the admin UI.
+While the `textual` model is the only one required for smart search, some users may experience slow first searches
+due to backups triggering loading of the other models into memory, which blocks other requests until completed.
+To avoid this, you can preload the other models (`visual`, `recognition`, and `detection`) if you have enough RAM to do so.
+
+Additional machine learning parameters can be tuned from the admin UI.
 
 :::