It strikes me as odd that the installer needs 768MB, even though Glassfish might need 256MB of ram in addition to Netbeans, OpenSolaris, and X11/JDS, but this is the installer we're talking about, and with fast disks, swapping although slower than ram shouldn't be that big of a hit on systems with 512MB of ram. The installer is still the same one in Solaris 10, and although I know Solaris is a work in progress and it's due to change to Anaconda or something of the like, the installer does not need 768MB ram to run. Even RHEL5's installer can run on 256MB of ram, so it's really not something to argue about. One may run svcadm and disable services at initial boot to reduce usage, but then again OpenSolaris finally cuts the services down to a bare minimal plus X11. RPC, X11, and console services are all that run on a stock install of Solaris Developer Edition 04/2007. (NV62 I believe is the build)
I agree on the polish comment, I am becoming quite fond of Sun's GNOME theme, it's truely better than the stock GNOME themes, but then again I like the lickable OS X window buttons, which it reminds me of. Might it be noted that non-x86 ports of OpenSolaris are due to push this usage, for it's not uncommon to find PowerPC systems maxed out at 512MB. (800MHz iBook) Some still usable SPARC systems could run OpenSolaris if one cut down services and rebuild a few components, but then again, these wouldn't be using a GUI. Solaris Developer Edition does not have an option for console install nor does it have an option for package selections, this needs to be noted and addressed by the installer team and Sun's build engineers. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
