[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

[Peter Tribble]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:

> ken mays via oi-dev писал 16.05.2016 18:19:
>
>> Hello,
>> The 'default' minimal hardware requires  =>768MB RAM. The achieved
>> hardware minimum recently with the latest illumos kernel is 48MB RAM
>> (i.e. in CLI mode). This was recently achieved by Peter Tribble.
>>
>
> I suspect IPS alone will eat 1GB RAM without any issues... So if we speak
> about minimum usable system, I'd say 768 RAM is not enough.
>

Quite, 1GB seems more realistic as a bare minimum. The current Oracle
Solaris
minimum has risen to 2GB. Those of us messing around at the 48MB point
aren't actually expecting people to use such a system!

Currently available new hardware is mostly 4GB or more, with a handful of
systems
(mostly cheap laptops) at 2GB. All my 2007/2008 vintage test boxes have at
least
4GB. The interesting thing is people trying to re-use 10-year old boxes.

It's probably worth clarifying 32-bit support. I recall Alexander saying
recently
that it had been effectively dropped, I'm not sure exactly what that means.
(I
know that OI hasn't really supported 32-bit for a while,  I think 64-bit
only X
was the tipping point.)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
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