On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:04:47 +0100 "Peter Tribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hogwash. What is the reasonable minimum? I'm suspecting it's well > over 2G. 2Gb is perfectly alright. > And as for being unable to get machines with less than 2G, just look > at Sun's price list I'm not saying you can't buy machines w/ 512mb-1gb. I'm saying that the majority of computers offered in stores comes w/ a minimum of 2Gb. At least in the Netherlands. > So you're saying that if people want to even try OpenSolaris then > they need to throw away their perfectly functional hardware and buy > something new? 512mb is the bare minimum for OpenSolaris. Take it or leave it. That doesn't mean people have to throw their machines away. They could try to add ram. I -do- say that 512mb ram is stone age. > 1G is more than enough to run a modern desktop (although heavier use > and more apps will drive the requirement up beyond that). 1Gb is minimum for a modern desktop and a few apps like the Gimp / OpenOffice. That leaves hardly some room for modern filesystems, nor does it leave room for virtualization. > (And it's not just a case of looking at the memory in the hardware - > as virtualization becomes more and more widely used that memory > allocation gets split up into smaller chunks that get allocated to > virtual systems.) That's why a modern machine needs at least 2GB ram. That way you can have a modern desktop; a modern FS like ZFS and one xVM. Below that all you have is a modern desktop. No room to play with the modern goodies like xVM / ZFS Given the fact that 2GB sales for about 30 euro, that's cheap. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv90 ++ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
