Re: Small rant: installer environment size

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On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 20:23 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > Please bear in mind the difference between bare metal and virtual
> > machines. The bare metal machine may have 32 GB of RAM, making a
> > 800 MB install image a non-issue. For a public cloud virtual
> > machine
> > though, this could bump your VM sizing up 1 level from 2 GB quota
> > to a 4 GB RAM quota, with correspondingly higher price point. Now
> > most people probably don't run the installer in a public cloud,
> > preferring pre-built disk images. Even in a local machine though,
> > you may be using most of your 32 GB of RAM for other things (well
> > firefox/chrome), so allowing extra for the VM is not without
> > resource cost. If we could figure out a way to knock a few 100 MB
> > off the installer RAM requirements that is valuable.
> > 
> > 
> The problem I see here is not the presence of the firmware on the
> image,
> but the fact that it seems to be loaded into memory despite not being
> used.

This is the direction Daniel was thinking down. I'm waiting for someone
with more expertise to reply, but I suspect the reply is going to be
along the lines of "yes, we *can* do that, but it's somewhat tricky
work that involves thinking about lots of paths that aren't obvious,
and somebody would need to dedicate their time to working on that".
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

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