Fedora RAM consumption: (was: Re: Can I use a RedHat 7.2 boot disk to install Fedora via nfs?)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Do, den 15.04.2004 schrieb Bob Shaffer um 23:20:
> I installed Fedora Core 1 on my laptop with 92MB RAM.  I don't even think
> it would run the graphical installer.  I always use the text installer,
> anyway, so I'm not sure.  I have never successfully installed Fedora on
> anything with less RAM than that.  I don't know what the real requirement
> is; I'm just sharing my personal experience.  I'm pretty sure 32 MB is not
> going to work.  I'm running out of swap space as it is.  Red Hat 7.x works
> very well with that little RAM though, even in KDE (1).

This is my personal experience:

I have successfully installed Fedora on a P200MMX with 32MB RAM.
Graphical installation works well, although it gives a warning, that the
swat partition needs to be formated and mounted before one can continue
to install.

Nevertheless Fedora is horrible slow (compared to Debian Woody) with
64MB. The RAM is always at 98% and at least 15MB SWAP (while Woody
fairly takes more than half of the RAM). I'm not using X on this
machine, only some X apps with another computer as remote X server.

Quote from Fedora Core 1 release notes:

Memory:

      * Minimum for text-mode: 64MB
        
      * Minimum for graphical: 192MB
        
      * Recommended for graphical: 256MB
        
I think the release notes are correct! Running Fedora with anything less
then 192MB will be painfull. So I decided to buy another 128MB at ebay
for 14 Euros. 

Christoph