ot : _download_ requirements?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Oct 29 22:40:59 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 00:21 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:

> > I'd like to just ditch the whole section and replace it with something
> > vaguer. Maybe realistic minimums for the default desktop, and a note
> > that the requirements will vary widely depending on what you're doing
> > with the system. (My mailserver is currently using a princely 119MB of
> 
> This is from my home devel server
> Mem:   2028624k total,  1921892k used,   106732k free,    97760k buffers
> 
> may be an appropriate slogan would be "This system can use as much
> memory as you can give"? :)
> 
> This system uses 256MB+ shortly after boot

When I say 'used' obviously I don't mean for caching. The output of
'free' can be pretty misleading. I like htop, which gives a simple and
pretty accurate view of how much memory is actually in use by
applications and how much is effectively free.
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