I'll update the getting started requirements to include the following (geared towards laptops):
- Use of SSD throughout - 16G RAM - 4x CPU - Swap double size of RAM - and to make use of ZFS on a separate SSD block device and recommend a size of 100G. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 23/04/16 09:35, Adam Stokes wrote: > >> I don't think it's a hard rule it is just the hardware I have at the > >> time. I'm fixing a few things today and will test on my laptop's once > >> I upgrade them to xenial. I can update that section of the site once I > >> figure out the minimal requirements > >> > > > > I think RAM is much more likely to be critical than cores. We should > > also advise the use of an SSD because IO is a big bottleneck when you > > are firing up many containers at the same time. > > Sorry, my last note got blocked to the list as I sent from my phone.... > > Here's some real data, from an actively deployed and running > conjure-up openstack instance... > > - I have conjure-up working with 16GB of memory, though I'm pretty > heavily pegged (79% used), so I'd recommend some swap space in > addition (I used 32GB, which is 16% used). > > - I have conjure-up working on a Thinkpad laptop, with 2xi7 cores > (hyperthreaded to 4 effective cores). I've pegged the CPU frequency > at max (2.9GHz). Idling now, I'm running at 1.32 system load (33% cpu > usage). There are over 1191 active processes running, across the host > OS and 16 LXD containers. > > - I have conjure-up working with SSD storage. A small root filesystem > (20GB is plenty sufficient, and uses 4.8GB for all of my Ubuntu 16.04 > LTS desktop). I used a healthily sized zpool with an SSD backed block > device (100GB allocated, 25.1GB used). > > Hopefully this helps. > > Dustin >
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