Why Fedora needs so much RAM?

[Mike McCarty]

Andreas Bernauer wrote:
> frank wang wrote on Thu, May 31 2007 at 22:14 (-0700):
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I tried to run live CD of fedora 7. In the boot up menu, one item is
>>run from RAM. It requires 1GB+ memory. I wondered why fedora 7 takes
>>so much memory. Recently, I am looking for a linux that requires less
>>memory. Supprisingly, Puppy2 and Damn Small Linux can run linux from
>>RAM with 128 MB and 48 MB ram.
> 
> 
> As someone else already mentioned on this list, fedora does not "require"
> that much RAM, but uses the RAM that is available to do the best out of 
> it, eg. use it as a disk cache (which, btw, is a good thing to do
> when you use fedora from CD).

[snip]

Fedora cannot run in 16MB of RAM, which DSL assuredly will.

Mike
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