Re: memory usage with latest Fedora install

[Ralf Ertzinger <fedora camperquake de>]

Hi.

On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:04:20 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> I'm testing a text mode PXE/NFS install of the latest Fedora on an
> old PIII with 320MB RAM.  So far the install as been running for over
> 14 hours.  System is swapping and this is slowing things down.

That seems quite excessive to me. How many packages do you install?

My basic xen-vm-installs (on a PIII-500, 96MB RAM, 128MB Swap, text
mode) take roughly half an hour for RHEL5. That's for 500-600 MB of packages.