System Requirements

[Pete Travis]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/04/13 01:28 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>
>>
>>> Anaconda set's the minimal hw requirements so you should check what's
>> their today's requirement to function properly
>>
>
> Well, half the time the number in anaconda doesn't get touched unless
> someone bugs the anaconda team about it, so...
>
> It's a really squishy area to try and deal with, though, honestly. I'm not
> entirely sure validating HW requirements as part of QA is realistic,
> because I mean, what if we pick 'mail/web server' as one of the roles? Do
> we have to set up a kickstart that builds out a running
> postfix/dovecot/apache/**wordpress machine and run it for a couple of
> weeks and see what resource use is like? It seems a bit impractical. What
> we can do - and do do at present, though it isn't written in stone anywhere
> - is check that install is possible with various package sets with various
> amounts of RAM right around the current anaconda 'hard floor', but trying
> to determine the minimum resources for various 'real world scenarios' seems
> like it might be quite a lot of thankless work...
> --
> Adam Williamson
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>
> Yeah, that's *way* more work than I think the cause merits. We don't
exactly have hardware vendors scrambling to pay for certification stickers
:)

I was hoping you guys were already collecting information, or that a
datapoint could be added to existing tests. Identifying things like the
memory required to complete a default installation, or the base graphics
hardware required to run gnome-shell without mashing the keyboard in
frustration and moving to another distro, or a recommended figure for
available storage using the default packageset and a comfortable amount of
room.

I *really* want to stay away from absolute 'minimum' guidelines. Those with
the skills to set a system up with comically low resources are not the
target audience - we want to set reasonable expectations for the desktop
user, and guidelines for other use cases. We can steer towards a lighter
spin for machines with low resources, for example, or boast about the node
size we can use in the cloud.

-- Pete Travis
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