On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:08:18 -0700 Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad <centos at automatic-server.com> wrote: > > > > With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with > > more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ... > > Could switch to a different console and bounce on top, if you're > interested. > > 512MB seems really small these days, so I'm guessing you're using this > as a small appliance box like a NAT router. No, a basic box for common services like DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Nginx, ... doesn't need much RAM, so 512 MB is really enough. > Is there a reason you > prefer CentOS over a distro targeted to your application? I don't see a reason, why I should have a zoo of distros. A productive basic installation of CentOS 7 needs ~ 100 MB RAM. Why the installation needs more than 5 times that is really interesting question. Best Regards Oli -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140907/2a7b3960/attachment-0005.sig>