On Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 4:47 AM Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Follow-up to <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287719#c6> > > Good news. > > 2048 MB is sufficient with root-on-ZFS for an ordinary installation > (more than base, less than all of FreeBSD-base) of 15.0-ALPHA4 > plus these five non-base packages, some of which are meta: > > kde plasma6-sddm-kcm sddm virtualbox-guest-additions xorg > > Beyond initial installations: with 4 G swap enabled, I repeatedly > tested forced reinstallation of all packages, > > pkg upgrade -fUy > > 1077 packages, 1886 steps. Success. > > ---- > > With swap disabled, which I would not recommend: > > - reinstallation failed, switch from ttyv1 to ttyv2 was > impossible, and so on, so I attempted a shut down > <https://i.imgur.com/RftLGMu.png> > > - shut down failed > > - following a forced stop of the computer, SDDM and the > desktop environment were unsable (pkg issue 2441, > second incident this morning). > It's big enough to install.. but i have lxte + terminal + firefox with 4 tabs open and I routinely run out of memory and swap heavily. I have a 4GB Chromebook. So one can run in 128MB for light tasks and careful kernel tuning, 512MB is a more realistic minimum since it lets you install and update. But for X it's flipped: you need 2G to install but closer to 4G or 8G to run a complete, but on the lean side, X11 system. Warner > >
