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@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ can access the CKAN config, db and logging directly and avoids many HTTP calls.
 This simplification makes sense because the xloader job doesn't need to do much
 processing - mainly it is streaming the CSV file from disk into PostgreSQL.
 
+It is still entirely possible to run the XLoader worker on a separate server,
+if that is desired. The worker needs the following:
+
+- A copy of CKAN installed in the same Python virtualenv (but not running).
+- A copy of the CKAN config file.
+- Access to the Redis instance that the running CKAN app uses to store jobs.
+- Access to the database.
+
+You can then run it via `ckan jobs worker` as below.
+
 Caveat - column types
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