diff --git a/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml b/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
index 1d955be..1915dfb 100644
--- a/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
+++ b/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
@@ -64,12 +64,15 @@ spec:
         - name: wyoming
           containerPort: 10300
         resources:
+          # faster-whisper `small` is ~244M params (fp16 ~500 MiB weights)
+          # plus CTranslate2 runtime / workspace buffers during decode.
+          # 1 GiB OOM-kills during model load; 2 GiB gives headroom.
           requests:
             cpu: "100m"
-            memory: "256Mi"
+            memory: "512Mi"
           limits:
             cpu: "1000m"
-            memory: "1Gi"
+            memory: "2Gi"
         volumeMounts:
         - name: data
           mountPath: /data