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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements
From:       mkolman () redhat ! com
Date:       2021-10-19 15:12:20
Message-ID: 5d618d1a43e9d14e03009986d5ccecbd75ee9f6b.camel () redhat ! com
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On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 07:33 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > So in short the best current scenario is Anaconda booted in text
> > mode
> > from a USB stick or via PXE with NFS installation source - that
> > should
> > require the least amount of RAM at installation time.
> > 
> > Still even then, especially with kickstart installations that have
> > elaborate post scripts (that need RAM to run as well!) or install
> > tons of packages (depsolving as well as elaborate RPM scriptlets
> > need
> > RAM!) can still throw a wrench into the works.
> 
> Also install with just the server repo.  The repodata needs memory
> too,
> so when adding the "everything" and "updates" repos RAM requirements
> go
> up too.
Yes, indeed - I've definitely seen cases where depsolving itself was
cuaing OOM - so metadata size, package count and possibly other related
factors can influence RAM requirements.

> 
> take care,
>   Gerd
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