Karen: Before we claim we support X memory, we have to test it to make sure that it works. It also needs to be in the regular testing as well.
If we use zfs, I believe the minimum memory requirement is 1 GB of memory. If you use anything lower than 1 GB, you will have performance issues. I don't know whether the memory requirement to install ZFS had changed recently. So it is not just the simple task of whether you can install the system in a certain amount of memory , even if you can install it, but it is not usable afterwards, it is not going to help. I remembered doing memory requirement testing for various Solaris releases. I tested on the lowest memory machine before S10 Ships after smf is integrated, I have a very difficult time getting smf to work on low memory systems. It kept on timing out because the timeout value was tuned for fast machines and not for slow machines. Karen Tung wrote: > A group of students from the Colorado School of Mines is interested to work > on a Text-based installer for Open Solaris. > > Just like all other redesign projects that's going on, I want to start > by formulating > a problem statement, and discuss the "features" we want to see in the > text installer. > So, let's not focus on the implementation details until we agree on the > goal of the project. > > In my opinion, the text installer should: > > - work on both x86 and sparc > - offer a similar installation experience and feature set as the > existing slim GUI installer > - the installation performance shouldn't defer too much from the GUI > installer. (ie: if it > takes 20 minutes to install via GUI, it should take about the same > amount of time to install > via the text installer) > - memory requirement to do the installation (256mb?? 128mb??) > > Please share your thoughts and opinions on this. > > Thanks, > > --Karen > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
