Re: minimum ram required for install?

[Patrick Beart <patrick WebArchitecture com>]

At 10:18 PM -0500 5/4/02, Ed Wilts wrote:
>  > so what IS the minimum ram required for an install of rh7.2?  i've got an
> >  ibm aptiva here /w 16mb ram and it's telling me i can't install it 'cause
> i
> >  don't have enough ram
>
> According to the box, 32MB for text mode and 64MB for graphical.  96MB is
> recomended for graphical.


	Agreed.

	I recently purchased an older IBM Thinkpad (PII/266) for 
remote connections to my servers and general RH "sandboxing". It came 
with 64 MB of RAM on it (32 on board, and a 32 MB chip). The RH 7.2 
"Professional" installed without incident. Gnome and KDE worked just 
fine with the 64 Megs.
	What was interesting is the test that I did, afterwards ...

	I had installed almost the entire distro. Everything in the 
"Professional" install, except a few developer tools -- nearly 2 GB 
worth of files/programs!
	Then I did my test:
			find / -name sndconfig   (as "root")

	The laptop took 4 minutes and 23 seconds to find the 3 
"sndconfig" files in the 2 GB of files on the laptop (with 64 MB of 
RAM). I then added a 128 MB chip to the unit, and performed the same 
test, with the same command. Result:  9 seconds!

	Conclusion:  Buy More RAM!!      ;-)





Patrick Beart
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