Bug#858159: [installation-guide] Memory requirements for installing Stretch have increased since Jessie
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>
> > On Aug 3, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> That doesn’t necessarily mean they need more RAM. KDE5 has been seriously
> improved over KDE4 when it comes to performance. So even here you probably
> need less memory now. Don’t know about GNOME though.
>
> > In Jessie and Stretch, we have
> > With desktop | 256 megabytes | 1 gigabyte | 10 gigabytes
> >
> > What do people think about doubling the minimum value from
> > 256 to 512 megabytes at least?
> > (Since Gnome is the default desktop, we should choose values here, that will
> > work almost for Gnome. Orienting on LXDE or Xfce is probably not the right
> > thing ...)
>
> Did you do some testing inside a VM with different memory configurations to
> get some data points?
That's what the OP of this bug did, right?
I just tried to push things forward ...
> Just bumping the numbers because we haven’t done so for a while makes them
> less meaningful, in my opinion.
That sounds also reasonable, yes.
Holger
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