Server product kernel requirements

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 31 18:33:16 UTC 2013


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> (As for memory-critical cloud... I have no idea what that is to be
> honest.  All I hear from the cloud people is "smaller is better".
> Mostly that's image size, not memory overhead but I can imagine they
> want that limited as well.)

Admittedly, it's not the same as unswappable kernel memory, but I wonder if
for 2MB we can find that sort of working set size reductions in other places
on the cloud image.

Bill


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