Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Nov 9 17:33:36 UTC 2012
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 11:21 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2012-11-09, 07:43 GMT, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > It hasn't really 'skyrocketed'. We cited 512MB for several releases,
> > bumped it to 768MB for F15/F16 (IIRC), got it back down to 512MB for
> > F17, and it's back up to 768MB or 1GB for F18 atm because everyone has
> > more important stuff to do than optimize the RAM usage right now. But
> > it's not been rising crazily or anything. I think the last time someone
> > took a deep look at RAM use during install - during F17 cycle when we
> > got it back down to 512MB - it turned out a lot of the usage happened
> > during package install and wasn't really to do with anaconda at all.
>
> I understand and accept that now everybody in the anaconda-land is busy
> with something else, but let it not slip our attention how absolutely
> crazy it is when the installation program requires twice as much (or
> more) of the resources than all programs running on the computer
> combined. I have here a server with RHEL-6 which I had to upgrade to
> 512MB just to be able to install a system on it. Now it has plenty of
> free RAM even with some bulky PHP apps (e.g., Zarafa) which is wasted.
> With the spread of virtual machines, it seems to be even more obvious.
> Wasn’t one of the advantages of VMs the fact that you can slice more
> small machines on one computer?
If you're doing that, it's pretty trivial to use pre-built images.
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