Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



[I can't find the original message, so sorry about incorrect threading]

This bug is another symptom of issues which make it hard to run Fedora
in "small" systems with "only" 1GB of RAM.

Another is that LUKS filesystem decryption uses a deliberately
"memory-hard" algorithm called Argon2 which requires loads of RAM and
sometimes has problems running on a machine with 1GB and no swap.

Libguestfs is affected here because our appliance has limited RAM.  So
when we operate on disk images eg through virt-customize, some
features like --install packages and fs decryption can fail unnecessarily.

I do think we should block the Fedora release if basic features don't
work on such machines.  A machine with 1GB of RAM should even be able
to run a full system with GUI, and certainly should be usable from the
command line.  (Insert statement here about how back in the day I ran
multiuser Minix on a PC with 640K of RAM and a steady hand ...)

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many
powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux