Server product kernel requirements

Prarit Bhargava prarit at redhat.com
Thu Oct 31 12:38:29 UTC 2013



On 10/30/2013 07:50 PM, David Strauss wrote:
> I was, indeed, drawing an arbitrary line, but we must draw the line somewhere.
> Maybe Fedora 23+ have it set far higher. It's easy to adapt over time to support
> the high end of commodity servers while still being desktop-friendly; we don't
> have a long support window.
> 

Fair enough, but my question is, then, why 512?  If it is completely arbitrary
why not jump it to a high number that people have requested before and be done
with it?  Even 1024 would be acceptable to the HPC users I've talked with FWIW.

Josh, would you be okay with 1024?

P.


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