-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUDKmqAAoJEDx7wfUw/4IOiHEIAMOQLruNhzvZBrlc11VGoZr3 oSMXct9ihuVngPsRlJcdBLxrgmRKVDJIah+qycvEzOrk4E7gNdVtqUVQ/TMLpgHk 0izYrZfIzbJ+ArvBxY53Hb0KJ+QGdr9wgT3FiolZ8li7uS4TflzxTgPmom4xmEn2 itV9AFCtFKjAK3zRNBenRUFLbMaqNQKYLSS9IHwwSq1eswHMleK4YdQzoT93NOBz cH1IRwjGHfLI7VBciHZiQ/YuIWOngS941uR4OrLc/RrnrP54+Xa4sPB3wFcKTUHP GcTUbR+K2DpFonAF6hO0pjc8YXK/v2Q0zRgn49gy6Ifo2Aq2uN2pTKWYVHdLnP8= =mSeA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos