On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with > 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down > about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. > I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70% > the slow down. > > I then put in 1G of RAM and everything zipped on past and finished fine. > > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. > It depends on the amount of packages you select. A minimal install should work with 5.3 and 512 MB of RAM. The reason is that yum needs a lot of memory when doing dependency checking etc. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)