Re: Minimum RAM for CentOS7

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On 09/07/2014 01:31 PM, Oliver Schad wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:08:18 -0700
> Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with
>>> more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ...
>>
>> Could switch to a different console and bounce on top, if you're
>> interested.
>>
>> 512MB seems really small these days, so I'm guessing you're using this
>> as a small appliance box like a NAT router. 
> 
> No, a basic box for common services like DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Nginx, ...
> doesn't need much RAM, so 512 MB is really enough.
> 
>> Is there a reason you
>> prefer CentOS over a distro targeted to your application?
> 
> I don't see a reason, why I should have a zoo of distros. A productive
> basic installation of CentOS 7 needs ~ 100 MB RAM. Why the installation
> needs more than 5 times that is really interesting question.
> 
> Best Regards
> Oli
> 
As soon as you throw in a web server and/or MySQL, you need more.  The
RAM is really defined by what the system is going to be doing.


- -- 
- -- Steve
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