Re: F33 install minimum memory requirements?

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On 2020-08-25 22:35, Kamil Paral wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:33 AM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Aug 25 02:27:15 localhost-live anaconda[2042]: program: stderr:
>     Aug 25 02:27:14 localhost-live anaconda[2042]: program: Running... umount /run/install/source
>     Aug 25 02:27:13 localhost-live earlyoom[1015]: sending SIGTERM to process 2042 uid 0 "anaconda": ba
>     dness 77, VmRSS 55 MiB
>     Aug 25 02:27:12 localhost-live earlyoom[1015]: low memory! at or below SIGTERM limits: mem  4.00%,
>     swap 10.00%
>     Aug 25 02:27:12 localhost-live earlyoom[1015]: mem avail:    44 of  1191 MiB ( 3.77%), swap free: 
>       0 of  892 MiB ( 0.00%)
>
>     So, it would seem, zram based swap is less forgiving than disk based swap.
>
>
> It's not "less forgiving", it's just smaller. The log shows you're out of memory and out of swap space. If you absolutely need to install on a system with so little memory, configure a disk-based swap of appropriate size to compensate for low available memory. Or you can also try to use a netinst image which has lower memory requirements than a Live desktop image.
>

Right.  In my case I simply increased the memory allocated to the VM for the install process and then
lowered it for the running system.  These are just "test" VMs and won't have much of a workload.
I just need to be able to run multiple VMs at the same time on a host with 6GB.

I simply hadn't had an issue before.  Being a "long time" user I tend not to read release notes. (Shame, shame)
And even then I don't think there are F33 release notes available.

I feel the documentation of the F33 equivalent of
 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f32/release-notes/welcome/Hardware_Overview/

should be more explicit in pointing out installs will fail on systems with less than 2GB.

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