On 12/05/2011 08:35 AM, Will Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 06:10 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > >> I made a non-Live DVD of Fedora 16 using the "treebuilder" branch of anaconda >> which is [will become] a feature of Fedora 17. It successfully installed >> using 318MB of RAM (256MB + 64MB - 2MB), in elapsed wall-clock time >> of about 45 minutes, which is 80% longer than the 25 minutes that I see >> when I use 1GB. I tried using 250MB of RAM, but gave up after an hour >> because it was less than half way through the 1200 packages of default >> Graphical Desktop. > > Interesting data; thanks for testing this. Was that 32-bit or 64-bit? > Graphical/vnc/text? 64-bit, default graphical anaconda. > > We should probably fix the enforced memory requirements accordingly. > 256MB sounds like a good place for a minimum? Or, at least, a > strongly-worded warning? At 250MB it's obviously page-thrashing. Testing to see if it actually finishes is drudgery, yet it's important to observe the details of any failure. The motivation for such low memory is old laptops (thus subtracting a couple MB for video frame buffer in main RAM) and old servers, or perhaps new virtualized servers. -- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
