docs: remove obsolete info in getting started

Go automatically configures the number of used threads appropriately
and tweaking it is no longer relevant for a basic setup of Prometheus.
The baseline consumption tied to the storage layer no longer applies.
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Fabian Reinartz 8 years ago
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@ -77,17 +77,6 @@ You can also verify that Prometheus is serving metrics about itself by
navigating to its metrics endpoint:
[localhost:9090/metrics](http://localhost:9090/metrics)
The number of OS threads executed by Prometheus is controlled by the
`GOMAXPROCS` environment variable. As of Go 1.5 the default value is
the number of cores available.
Blindly setting `GOMAXPROCS` to a high value can be counterproductive. See the
relevant [Go FAQs](http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_no_multi_CPU).
Prometheus by default uses around 3GB in memory. If you have a
smaller machine, you can tune Prometheus to use less memory. For details,
see the [memory usage documentation](storage.md#memory-usage).
## Using the expression browser
Let us try looking at some data that Prometheus has collected about itself. To

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