On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 4:06 AM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:

> My suggestion would be that if the install process could detect/know that
> it is below the limits
> needed it would notify the user and not proceed.  That is, not just crash.
>

Knowing memory requirements in advance for an ever-changing codebase across
different system architectures. If you can find a solution, you might win
some prize and recognition in the theoretical informatics field ;-)

The best that we could possibly do is to regularly test all the different
types of images on different architectures, find a reasonable lower limit,
and then hardcode the limit in anaconda (which would need to reliably
detect the environment it is running in) and inform the user if the free
memory is too low (not just total memory, because the user can start a few
programs in the live environment before starting the installer, and you
suddenly have much less memory available). Repeat the testing at least once
per cycle, ideally multiple times. If that sounds like a lot of work, it
sounds correct. That's why a note in the system requirements section on the
download page is usually how everybody deals with this.
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