* mary ding (Mary.Ding at Sun.COM) wrote: > 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.
Well, we use ZFS when we install the liveCD and we support 512M for that method. And the resultant system does actually boot and run in 512M. So, a text installer ought to be usable in at least 512M and quite possibly even less (if we don't have to load X and Gnome I believe we'll save a lot of memory). My point is, we already 'break' the ZFS minimum memory requirement (if in fact that is a valid requirement) with our current 'gui' installation method. The bar for the text ui I believe starts at 512M minimum and needs investigation to see if it can go lower (which I think it could, at least in terms of installation. Whether or not the system would boot under 512M is a different matter). Cheers, -- Glenn
