[CentOS] CentOS in low RAM settings

Wed Sep 15 15:43:27 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 9/15/2010 8:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello listmates,
>
> I have been playing with Xen VM's and was wondering what the minimum
> RAM size in which you could run CentOS 5.5 (i386). So far I managed to
> install in 256 MB or 512 MB and then shrink the VM's RAM to 128 MB and
> still run the installation. Would anyone know why the install in a 128
> MB VM fails (even in text mode)?
>

If you are running VM's you can just copy a working image instead of 
repeating the installs - and if you have fairly identical hardware you 
can do the same with disk images on physical machines.  It's more a 
question of whether that's enough RAM to do anything useful once you are 
running.  In particular it doesn't seem like a great idea to run VM's at 
all if you don't have RAM to spare.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com