Recommended memory size for F19?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Apr 10 21:37:29 UTC 2013


On 10/04/13 08:53 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:26:48 +0200
> Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> I was running F18 on an old notebook with 512 MB memory (not
>> extendable). Now, I upgraded this box to F19 with yum. The upgrade was
>> done, but now, the box is no more operable because it is continuously
>> swapping.
>>
>> Question: which minimal memory size is recommended for F19?
>
> We don't know yet, as f19 hasn't been released. ;)
>
> There's still debugging options enabled on the kernel, but I wouldn't
> think that would cause 'continuously swapping'.

I think debug kernels actually do result in substantially increased 
memory usage, for some reason. Certainly, Alphas always seem to need 
more RAM for a successful install than Betas and Finals.
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