On Nov 8, 2007 12:32 PM, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > > Aubrey Li wrote: > > > >> On Nov 8, 2007 10:12 AM, Sanjay Nadkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Shawn Walker wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On 07/11/2007, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> One of my colleagues complains Indiana can't install on his 256M-memory > >>>>> box. > >>>>> He said the Indiana installer demands at least 512M memory, is that > >>>>> true? > >>>>> If so, can this issue be worked around? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> It's true for now; I believe there is work to reduce it in the future. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> To be precise, there may be some work to reduce the size of microroot > >>> which will enable a live CD to boot on systems with less 512MB. However > >>> there are no specific plana on making it install on 256 MB systems. > >>> However, that does not preclude someone from creating a new distro > >>> (using the distro constructor + some work:-) that would address this > >>> class of systems. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> So we'll boot on systems with less 512MB memory by livdCD. But we can't > >> install. > >> This doesn't make any sense! > >> > >> Is there any reason why 256MB systems doesn't work? The whole CD is just > >> ~700MB, > >> what eat up the available memory? > >> > >> > > I am not sure I see the connection between the size of the CD and memory > > size. The data on the CD is in a compressed format. One boots a > > mircoroot. A number of files such as headers, lint libraries etc and > > never expanded. The disk space on the installed system is about 2GB. > > On the installed system ZFS is the default file system. This puts > > more memory pressure and the overall system behavior will not be very > > good. One can probably get around this tuning the ZFS ARC, but that is > > not the direction we are aiming for in Indiana. > > > > To add to that. The current microroot size is mainly because > of the presence of unused amd64 binaries in the ramdisk. > Ideally the 32 and 64 bit microroots should be separate. > > As Sanjay states there is no connection between CD size and > memory usage. BeleniX has a DVD image that still uses only > 60MB sized ramdisk. > I of course know there is no connection between CD size and memory usage. I just wonder all of SXCE, BeleniX Nexenta are ok with 256M system, why indiana does not. When I said It has ~700M size, I mean it shouldn't include more new package need to be loaded and occupy memory.
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