[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA on CentOS 5.6

[Rob Crittenden]

Boris Epstein wrote:
> 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?

I've developed IPA in some 512MB VMs with 1GB swap and it generally 
works ok but I usually only have a couple of clients. At the moment 
~200MB is swapped.

So yeah, I guess you could say it works, but I wouldn't deploy it this 
way. I'm not even sure it would make a fair evaluation machine given the 
inevitable performance issues.

rob