Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rui Santos wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>     I've stumbled on a problem, on a test machine, using openSUSE 11.1
> x86_64 system with 512MB of RAM. This test was just to confirm a
> friends claim that he was unable to get a working server with that
> kind of hardware.

I can run 11.1 with KDE on a 512Mb laptop without swap.  Idling it uses
about 330M RAM.  A 64bit system would use roughly twice that, which
obviously wouldn't work without swap. 

I think your fsck memory issue is filesystem-specific, but vfat isn't
exactly the most popular linux filesystem, so a bugreport might not get
a lot of attention.

Second - what's the real purpose of trying to run 64bit openSUSE 11.1 on
a tiny server with only 512M RAM?  With that amount of RAM, I would not
bother with 64bit openSUSE - any performance gains will be negligible
if even measurable.  Just run the 32bit version instead, and your
server will be fine.


/Per

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/Per Jessen, Zürich

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