[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA on CentOS 5.6

[Boris Epstein]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbjorn at nixtra.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, November 9, 2011 20:27, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 14:23 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> So what OS would not be too old to run FreeIPA on? Would we be talking CentOS 6?
> >>
> >>
> >> Boris.
> >>
> >
> > Well, RHEL 6.2 (due out before the end of the year) will include a
> > fully-supported version of FreeIPA as "Red Hat Identity Management". Presumably, whenever CentOS
> > 6.2 is released, it will also carry this
> > package.
> >
> > It's likely to be possible to get it to run on CentOS 6.0, but it will
> > require some elbow grease. I also agree with the earlier comments that 512MB is not enough to run
> > the OS + FreeIPA. _______________________________________________
>
>
> Agreed! Even my test setup with 10 clients started swapping on an IPA server with 1GB of memory.
> It now uses approx 1,7GB of memory after the IPA server was increased to 2GB.
>

What if you just give it massive amounts of swap though?

Boris.