On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For Fedora 27 it says this: > > Fedora Workstation to a laptop or desktop computer that has at least 1 > GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB space available > > https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > > When I set a VM to 1G it's always unusable. Sometimes it's PackageKit > that crashes first, which causes systemd-coredump to spin up and run > out of memory next, and then oom killers start killing off various > processes. Sometimes the oom killing just starts happening without a > prior crash. In any case I never get a desktop. > > With 1.5G RAM I usually get a desktop but then if anything crashes, > and it seems like PackageKit is crashing often when under memory > pressure (?), it kicks off systemd-coredump which makes the memory > problem worse, and a bunch of oom killers start killing off various > processes. In any case, I cannot successfully run the installer or > Firefox by themselves. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1559176 For reference there's a GNOME performance hack fest [1] happening in May to review the stack to improve performance on low resource devices such as the Raspberry Pi and similar cheap SBCs, this should help improve this across all similar device classes/specs. [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Hackfests/Performance2018 _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
