Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Lars Seipel
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:34:43PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > During Alpha, that's normal, it's been that way for 2-3 releases. Modern > debug kernels are very slow and inefficient; installing with a debug > kernel seems to exhaust 1GB of RAM quite easily. That's a separate > issue, though, an

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 01:10 +0100, Lars Seipel wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:03:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, I did some testing during F20 cycle which seems to indicate F20 > > Shell takes up a lot more memory than F19 when using llvmpipe. We're not > > sure exactly what's goi

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Lars Seipel
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:03:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, I did some testing during F20 cycle which seems to indicate F20 > Shell takes up a lot more memory than F19 when using llvmpipe. We're not > sure exactly what's going on yet, It's not just Gnome Shell's fault I think. At leas

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-12-19 15:26 (GMT-0600) Dan Mossor composed: When there is storage media besides RAM available, you can run F20 on as little as the 512MB that Ralf is using. Yesterday I did a HTTP F20 minimal install with .5G RAM and 1.13GHz Piii. The second GUI page was taking a long time to finish t

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Dan Mossor
On 12/18/2013 01:21 PM, Akshay Vyas wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/18/2013 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start "Sof

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-18 Thread Akshay Vyas
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/18/2013 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start >>> "Software" the VM locks up compl

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-18 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/18/2013 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start "Software" the VM locks up completely after a few seconds. Having "top" open while starting "Software" shows v

Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:03 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start > "Software" the VM locks up completely after a few seconds. Having "top" > open while starting "Software" shows very little free/cached RAM left > over

Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-18 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, i just booted the live iso in a VM with 1G of memory and after I start "Software" the VM locks up completely after a few seconds. Having "top" open while starting "Software" shows very little free/cached RAM left over before the system dies so I upped the RAM of the VM to 2G and with that

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-06 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
2013-04-03, 18:55 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": > I was pretty sure the Anaconda had gotten it well below 768MB for the > graphical mode guess I was wrong... You're right. Anaconda needs more RAM than XFCE desktop in this example. There is a way to avoid this, by editing anaconda python files

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On 03/04/13 11:55 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 04/03/2013 06:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 03/04/13 10:45 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Last time I checked it had gone up to 768 at one point then down to 384 I would assume with the recent rework it should be smaller than that

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/03/2013 06:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 03/04/13 10:45 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Last time I checked it had gone up to 768 at one point then down to 384 I would assume with the recent rework it should be smaller than that but then again I also had expected the installer to be

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On 03/04/13 10:45 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Last time I checked it had gone up to 768 at one point then down to 384 I would assume with the recent rework it should be smaller than that but then again I also had expected the installer to be faster to install with the recent rework ( whic

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/03/2013 02:09 PM, Pete Travis wrote: I was hoping you guys were already collecting information, or that a datapoint could be added to existing tests. Identifying things like the memory required to complete a default installation, or the base graphics hardware required to run gnome-shell

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On 03/04/13 07:03 AM, Joe Wulf wrote: Recommend that kickstarted systems with less than the recommended minimums state something to that effect in the anaconda logs. The system still might build, and might have problems. In practice at present this is highly unlikely; anaconda has higher requ

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:09:53 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I *really* want to stay away from absolute 'minimum' guidelines. Those with the skills to set a system up with comically low resources are not the target audience - we want to se

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On 02/04/13 01:28 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> >>> Anaconda set's the minimal hw requirements so you should check what's >> their today's requirement to function properly >> > > Well, half the time the number in anaconda doesn't

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Joe Wulf
Recommend that kickstarted systems with less than the recommended minimums state something to that effect in the anaconda logs. The system still might build, and might have problems.  Sure the peep's responsible might NOT look in that log.  The fact that the system was built, either kickstarted

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Karel Volný
Dne Út 2. dubna 2013 15:24:17, Adam Williamson napsal(a): > It's a really squishy area to try and deal with, though, honestly. I'm > not entirely sure validating HW requirements as part of QA is realistic, > because I mean, what if we pick 'mail/web server' as one of the roles? hm, then measure wh

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On 02/04/13 01:28 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 04/02/2013 07:48 PM, Pete Travis wrote: Hi, The docs team has begun assembling release notes for Fedora 19, and I've been thinking over hardware requirements. Historically, we have cited the CPU, storage, and especially memory requiremen

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/02/2013 07:48 PM, Pete Travis wrote: Hi, The docs team has begun assembling release notes for Fedora 19, and I've been thinking over hardware requirements. Historically, we have cited the CPU, storage, and especially memory requirements for the default installation - a basic GNOME des

System Requirements

2013-04-02 Thread Pete Travis
Hi, The docs team has begun assembling release notes for Fedora 19, and I've been thinking over hardware requirements. Historically, we have cited the CPU, storage, and especially memory requirements for the default installation - a basic GNOME desktop. After checking in with the anaconda team,