[CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 01:07:19 UTC 2007


On Dec 3, 2007 6:03 PM, Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > I would say that those systems may not be good candidates for future
> > EL versions. The memory requirements for the Enterprise editions are
> > going up with moore's law as more things get added to the wishbin 'of
> > what everyone wants'. I say this as I look at my 256 MB servers and
> > think that they will be EL-4 boxes from now on.
> >
>
> Unless those machines are dinosaurs with RDRAM, why not just upgrade
> them?   256mb is pretty cheap these days.    :)
>

Well they could be dinosaurs in other ways.. in that their max memory
is 256MB. I have run into that a couple of times..

Or you budget cant cover even an upgrade (my current situation ;)).


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
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