Yes, this is a known issue that the installer team is working to rectify. -Brian
On 9/19/07, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
