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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