On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/18/2013 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start >>> "Software" the VM locks up completely after a few seconds. Having "top" >>> open while starting "Software" shows very little free/cached RAM left >>> over before the system dies so I upped the RAM of the VM to 2G and with >>> that the problem disappears. >>> >>> It looks like the 1G of RAM recommended on http://fedoraproject.org/ >>> really aren't sufficient to run the basic stuff and this should be >>> updated to probably 1.5-2G RAM or at least 1G RAM + some swap. >> >> >> Well, I did some testing during F20 cycle which seems to indicate F20 >> Shell takes up a lot more memory than F19 when using llvmpipe. We're not >> sure exactly what's going on yet, I need to find time to circle back and >> investigate, but I suspect '1GB in a VM' and '1GB on metal' will be >> somewhat different experiences. 1GB is getting a bit thin for the >> default desktop with the current typical requirements of GNOME, FF and >> LO, though, yeah. > > > FWIW: F20 runs without many problems on 512k RAM: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 508392 kB > MemFree: 127952 kB > > # cat /etc/fedora-release > Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) > > However, this is a system on which Fedora was installed long time ago > gradually upgraded to f20. > > Ralf > I tested all Desktop environments on my old PC with 1G (DDR1) and found out that all DE's are working fine except GNOME(Default DE) and KDE which gave me some issues(slows down or freezes) when running Firefox,Chrome,GIMP etc > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- Akshay vyas (http://www.gofedora.in) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
