[CentOS] System requirements

[David G. Miller]

"Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/4/07, Grzesiek <grz3chu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > System requirements for CentOS 5 minimal installation (console and
>> > ssh) are....128 MB ram, 256...? I can't find this information in rhel5
>> > installation manual.
>>     
>
> A text based install is possible at 256 MB.
> A GUI based install needs 512MB (but 1024MB is recommended by Upstream
> OS Provider).
384MB is sufficient for graphical install of the CentOS 5 beta (4.92):

[root at fold ~]# uname -a
Linux fold.local.davenjudy.org 2.6.18-1.2747.el5 #1 SMP Mon Dec 11 
21:17:21 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at fold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.92 (Beta)
[root at fold ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       384920 kB
MemFree:         11200 kB
Buffers:        116204 kB
Cached:         108832 kB
SwapCached:       9804 kB
Active:         227620 kB
Inactive:        87620 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       384920 kB
LowFree:         11200 kB
SwapTotal:     3116492 kB
SwapFree:      3072824 kB
Dirty:              36 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       86816 kB
Mapped:          45764 kB
Slab:            39908 kB
PageTables:       4024 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   3308952 kB
Committed_AS:   567092 kB
VmallocTotal:   638968 kB
VmallocUsed:      8088 kB
VmallocChunk:   629748 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

This is my "crash and burn" test box so it only gets minimal usage other 
than sequentially making sure the CentOS 5 applications work as expected.

Cheers,
Dave

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