[Libosinfo] [Patch] bump default ubuntu RAM size

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 13:12 +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> Le 08/10/2018 à 13:05, Christophe Fergeau a écrit :
> > Hey,
> 
> Hey Christophe,
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 12:26:51PM +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> > > Hey!
> > > 
> > > I have a patch to fix the RAM requirement on ubuntu (for 16.04,
> > > 18.04 and
> > > 18.10) that I pushed at 
> > > https://gitlab.com/didrocks/osinfo-db/commit/67d8b0a34771b0e0aa8736cb707f8028e82c0bf3
> > > .
> > > As this is only one commit, I have enclosed a git format patch
> > > version to
> > > that email.
> > > 
> > > What triggered that discussion was
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/osinfo-db/+bug/1796037,
> > > which
> > > makes the default RAM size not being able to install ubuntu. The
> > > ubuntu
> > > desktop team decided to bump the requirement to 2Gb (which was
> > > the GNOME
> > > Boxes fallback for those versions when the file definition wasn't
> > > included).
> > The minimum was changed by 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements?action=diff&rev2=108&rev1=107
> > about 1 year ago. My understanding is that the minimum is 2GiB
> > while the
> > recommendation is 4GiB? (I'm unsure how to read the 4GiB mentioned
> > in
> > that page ;)
> > Is 16.04 impacted by these changes in memory requirements though?
> 
> Yes, we can be more fine-grained, basically:
> * 16.04 -> Min and recommended is 2Gb (this was bumped when our
> 16.04.x 
> maintenance image started to include snapd)
> * 18.04 and onward: 2Gb min, 4Gb recommended.
> However, if we bump recommended in that file to 4Gb, GNOME Boxes
> will 
> set that as a default, which we aren't really keen on (the 4Gb 
> recommended is a large estimate for people using a lot of tabs in
> their 
> browser, which isn't our GNOME Boxes typical usage we are targeting
> at).
> 
> Does it makes sense?


On one hand it does, on the other hand ... I'd still prefer to have the
recommended amount of RAM properly set in osinfo-db.

AFAIR, in Boxes the user can change the amount of RAM to the minimum
one if their decide to do so.

Also, the recommended disk size has been increased, right? Would be
nice to have it changed as well.


> Didier
> > Christophe
> > 
> > > Thanks a lot in advance.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Didier
> > > 
> > > > From 67d8b0a34771b0e0aa8736cb707f8028e82c0bf3 Mon Sep 17
> > > > 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:08:05 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] Bump minimal ram requirement for ubuntu to 2Gb
> > > 
> > > The ubuntu images needs 2Gb to end their installation process
> > > with
> > > pre-seeded snap. Otherwise, the machine OOM and deadlock during
> > > install.
> > > We weren't impacted previously as shipping an old osinfo-db
> > > version,
> > > which didn't have the distribution specific requirements, and
> > > thus,
> > > fallbacked to GNOME Boxes default which is 2Gb.
> > > ---
> > >   data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-16.04.xml.in | 4 ++--
> > >   data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.04.xml.in | 4 ++--
> > >   data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.10.xml.in | 4 ++--
> > >   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-16.04.xml.in
> > > b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-16.04.xml.in
> > > index 0a0936f..1281ca1 100644
> > > --- a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-16.04.xml.in
> > > +++ b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-16.04.xml.in
> > > @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
> > >         <minimum>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > >           <n-cpus>1</n-cpus>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>5368709120</storage>
> > >         </minimum>
> > >         <recommended>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>16106127360</storage>
> > >         </recommended>
> > >       </resources>
> > > diff --git a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.04.xml.in
> > > b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.04.xml.in
> > > index 2903f11..33bd5cf 100644
> > > --- a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.04.xml.in
> > > +++ b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.04.xml.in
> > > @@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
> > >         <minimum>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > >           <n-cpus>1</n-cpus>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>5368709120</storage>
> > >         </minimum>
> > >         <recommended>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>16106127360</storage>
> > >         </recommended>
> > >       </resources>
> > > diff --git a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.10.xml.in
> > > b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.10.xml.in
> > > index 1fd6e20..73e0b52 100644
> > > --- a/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.10.xml.in
> > > +++ b/data/os/ubuntu.com/ubuntu-18.10.xml.in
> > > @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
> > >         <minimum>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > >           <n-cpus>1</n-cpus>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>5368709120</storage>
> > >         </minimum>
> > >         <recommended>
> > >           <cpu>1000000000</cpu>
> > > -        <ram>1073741824</ram>
> > > +        <ram>2147483648</ram>
> > >           <storage>16106127360</storage>
> > >         </recommended>
> > >       </resources>
> > > -- 
> > > 2.17.1
> > > 
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