On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 09:30 +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, my old i586 system works quite smoothly with FC8 and better it > > did with some older Fedoras. > > > > Last time I tried (around FC6) I was not able to use Fedora for one > little i586 class box¹ I have around due to the absence of a > corresponding kernel. I've been hit by this bug myself ca. during the FC6/FC7 time-frame. AFAICT, the cause had been a bug somewhere in installer , which had caused installing on i586 to install the wrong (i686) kernel. [User visible symptoms had been the installer installing i686 packages, and using some i686 tls glibc stuff - There is a BZ somewhere. AFAICT, this is fixed in FC8.] > Did something change Yes, plenty has changed between FC6 and FC8. Noteworthy: * FC8 yum uses much less memory than its predecessors. * This silly installer-bug finally has been fixed. * Packaging is more granular. * rpm has been improved (FC6's rpm/yum occasionally killed the rpmdb) Other tricks I am applying: * selinux=0 - The amount of memory SELinux uses, causes kernel-OOMs early while booting. * sufficient swap - My i586 uses 128MB (2xRAM, inherited from this machine's past). More swap probably is advisable. * boot into runlevel 3 (way less memory consuming than runlevel 5). Switch off everything you don't really need (e.g. rhgb, usb, NetworkManager, PulseAudio, avahi, etc.). * Disable yum-updatesd - I update this machine by manually running yum, occasionally running selective updates (Occasionally, update-floods tend to cause OOMs). * Slim down the static installation (number of packages) and dynamic installation (daemons/services) to your personal "required" minimum. Fedora's default configuration is pretty generous. > (e.g. the i586 variant is built again) AFAICT, it has always been built. > or am I missing something else? Bring along a lot of time ... installation/updates are really slow ;) Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
