[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA on CentOS 5.6

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Wed, November 9, 2011 21:02, Boris Epstein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbjorn at nixtra.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Wed, November 9, 2011 20:27, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 14:23 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
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>>>> So what OS would not be too old to run FreeIPA on? Would we be talking CentOS 6?
>>>>
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>>>> Boris.
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>>>
>>> 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.
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>
> What if you just give it massive amounts of swap though?
>

I had plenty of swap... The lookups and responsiveness of both client logins and using the webui
increased significantly after adding more memory.

Memory if cheap, 2GB is not asking much.


Rgds,
Siggi