Bug#858159: [installation-guide] Memory requirements for installing Stretch have increased since Jessie

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

> On Aug 4, 2018, at 12:23 PM, David Margerison <deltam@electrosonics.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 4 August 2018 at 05:26, Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, so we could leave the "No desktop" section as is.
>> 
>> Since desktop environments like Gnome and KDE still move forward and add
>> new features, it seems likely to me, that memory requirements could change
>> over 4 years.
> 
> Maybe information here is relevant:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros_ram_consumption_comparison_updated/

Not really. Lots of the things you see there are discussed based on wrong assumptions.

For example, it’s actually a good thing when the kernel takes all the memory it can get. Everything else would just a waste of RAM.

Adrian