On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 08:57:05AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > >>Just to cite similar complaints I see from time to time... It irritates > >>me that people think it's a problem that in 2012 they can't install in a > >>VM that is allocated with 256M of RAM. Allocate a reasonable amount, > >>start over. Your host system for multiple VMs in 2012 should not have 1G > >>of memory. > >What about my host system for 500 VMs? > Use elastic allocation. It takes a lot of ram to say "please > depsolve these 40 packages" which turns into "install these 250 > (minimal) packages". So in order to handle that kind of task > (once), allocate a large amount of ram. Once that task is complete, > the actual work the image will be doing may require a lot less ram, > so you can scale down what you allocate to that guest. Which is of course what everyone is doing. I was replying to the broader theme (small VMs are useless) out of context, probably because it was early in the morning. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
