On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:14:45 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2016-08-31 11:10, Per Jessen wrote:
I installed a xen guest this morning, server text-only pattern, all looks good. I was surprised by the new yast pattern selection, and also deselected a few font-related packages that I had no need for, but otherwise okay.
I'm trying to install it now under vmware player, using the net install media. It is still very slow, some screen change takes minutes; and now appears hung.
I managed to get to the "installation settings" screen. I clicked on "boot settings" and waited, and waited... it finished updating the screen, I modified nothing and returned to the main display. It has been there for minutes. Oh, now it finished and says it is ready to install, before I had a chance to do any change, so I click "back". It does not respond. CPU for the VM is at 100%. Huh, it is not hung, I managed to hit ctrl-alt-f2 and run top. y2base is at 93%. Ok, it finished calculating. But it still does not respond to mouse clicks.
On vty4 there is a log and and the last two entries say:
Aug 32 16:24:56 install kernel: [1863.894454] Out of memory: Kill process 3303 (y2base) score 243 or sacrifice child Aug 32 16:24:56 install kernel: [1863.894460] Killed process 4041 (y2base) total-vm:941428kB, anon-rss:169804kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:2508kB
So indeed there is a memory problem on the NET install media. 768 MB is not enough (recommended minimum by vmware for openSUSE is 512 MB)
The Full DVD does not have any of those problems, installs fine and fast enough (though not fast).
Let me bring some light here, as we do some investigation in this area in past weeks[1]. NET media have problem, that it have to download insts-sys stuff and it is download directly to memory. For DVD case, it directly DVD, which means some spinning, but almost no memory. After some work, we reduced for TW by ( and maybe also leap, as there is more stuff ) 50 MB of RAM, but there is still a lot of stuff that have to be used. So for network based installation 1GB is recommended for graphical installation. Josef [1] https://lizards.opensuse.org/2016/07/27/highlights-of-yast-development-sprin... "Installer memory consumption reduced" part