Server product kernel requirements

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 31 19:02:10 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Quite possibly so.  I just hate to be wasteful if none of the 3
products clearly has a need.  If 1024 is sufficient, we'll likely go
with that.

josh


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