Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > On Aug 3, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote: > > > > Since desktop environments like Gnome and KDE still move forward and add > > new features, it seems likely to me, that memory requirements could change > > over 4 years. > > That doesn’t necessarily mean they need more RAM. KDE5 has been seriously > improved over KDE4 when it comes to performance. So even here you probably > need less memory now. Don’t know about GNOME though. > > > In Jessie and Stretch, we have > > With desktop | 256 megabytes | 1 gigabyte | 10 gigabytes > > > > What do people think about doubling the minimum value from > > 256 to 512 megabytes at least? > > (Since Gnome is the default desktop, we should choose values here, that will > > work almost for Gnome. Orienting on LXDE or Xfce is probably not the right > > thing ...) > > Did you do some testing inside a VM with different memory configurations to > get some data points?
That's what the OP of this bug did, right? I just tried to push things forward ... > Just bumping the numbers because we haven’t done so for a while makes them > less meaningful, in my opinion. That sounds also reasonable, yes. Holger -- ============================================================ Created with Sylpheed 3.5.1 under D E B I A N L I N U X 9 " S T R E T C H " . Registered Linux User #311290 - https://linuxcounter.net/ ============================================================