[CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

Sun Sep 7 21:16:50 UTC 2014
Frantisek Hanzlik <franta at hanzlici.cz>

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/7/2014 11:56 AM, Oliver Schad wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700
>> John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> >On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote:
>>>> > >And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM
>>> >
>>> >https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits  says 1GB minimum for
>>> >x86_64.
>> It doesn't matter what it says.
> 
> Take it up with Red Hat.    They state it requires 1GB, that was their
> choice.    it installs in 1GB just fine.

In my experience with the installation of Fedora 19/20 (same sort of
anaconda installator, F19 has v19.30.13, F20 v20.25.16, Centos 7 has
v19.31.79), RAM requirements also depend on the number of packages
and their size. On some slightly larger installation (kickstart
install from 8 repositories with over 50000 RPMs, 3600+ packages was
installed, highest rpm package file had over 200 MB in size) was
1.5 GB RAM insufficient, with 2 GB RAM installation was successful.

Franta Hanzlik