Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/18/2013 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start
>> "Software" the VM locks up completely after a few seconds. Having "top"
>> open while starting "Software" shows very little free/cached RAM left
>> over before the system dies so I upped the RAM of the VM to 2G and with
>> that the problem disappears.
>>
>> It looks like the 1G of RAM recommended on http://fedoraproject.org/
>> really aren't sufficient to run the basic stuff and this should be
>> updated to probably 1.5-2G RAM or at least 1G RAM + some swap.
>
> Well, I did some testing during F20 cycle which seems to indicate F20
> Shell takes up a lot more memory than F19 when using llvmpipe. We're not
> sure exactly what's going on yet, I need to find time to circle back and
> investigate, but I suspect '1GB in a VM' and '1GB on metal' will be
> somewhat different experiences. 1GB is getting a bit thin for the
> default desktop with the current typical requirements of GNOME, FF and
> LO, though, yeah.

FWIW: F20 runs without many problems on 512k RAM:

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         508392 kB
MemFree:          127952 kB

# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)

However, this is a system on which Fedora was installed long time ago 
gradually upgraded to f20.

Ralf