Bug 864212

I tried this workaround, at point 4, instead of waiting, switch to another vt.
Then tail -f packaging.log. I tried this two times, with different results.

The first time, the dependencies were resolved, i switched back to anaconda, but
anaconda was heavily wounded, sluggish, i tried to access 'software selection' again and got the 'aberrant snapshot' below. Of course, anaconda has slowed and became stalled.

The second time, anaconda never finished resolving dependencies, i ctr+c the running tail and noticed the guest had become sluggish...
Top shows process loop1 is always using a minimum of 63% (to 100%) cpu time. I switch back to anaconda, but evidently the guest is kaput...

So, the common factor is something eating the cpu.

Created attachment 623745 [details]
the 'aberrant snapshot' of the guest, reboot is needed

I'm not seeing any sluggishness here.  How much memory do you have in the system in question?

Created attachment 624121 [details]
btrfs-3 guest (qemu xml)

The guest has 768mb ram.

I will try with 2048 and post an update shortly.

I tried this:

2048MB -> OK  (Reproduced 0 times out of 2 tries)
1024MB -> OK  (Reproduced 0 times out of 2 tries)
 768MB -> BAD (Reproduced 2 times out of 2 tries)

It seems that 768mb is not enough.

Is currently expected for anaconda to display a warning / error dialog if the
amount of memory is less than the official value?

We don't at this time have a good idea as to what the memory requirements are.  A lot of it also has to do with your boot and install method.

How was this system booted, where was stage2 loaded from?

"How was this system booted, where was stage2 loaded from?"

Using KVM/SPICE(QLX), boot from cdrom, selecting the option "install/upgrade fedora".

"We don't at this time have a good idea as to what the memory requirements are.  A lot of it also has to do with your boot and install method."

Ok, but is it there some target value for the minimum ram anaconda need? (even if it is provisional). I believe that beta should be released with a known memory requirement. (at least to setup the testing guests correctly). 

At least in this specific case, 768mb seems to be not enough.

Well, I would hope that when booting from CDrom, thus loading stage2 from there instead of downloading it into ram, and using an install source on the media rather than again downloading it to disk we could manage to install graphically a system with only 768 megs of ram.  If we cant, I would consider that a bug somewhere.  Finding that and fixing that bug may be very difficult, but I do believe it would be a bug.

Currently this bug-report shows that there is at least one example of anaconda needing 1gb. 

Certainly 768mb were enough for most common scenarios, and that is good.

1- Anaconda 'hard memory requirement' (HARD_MEM_REQ)
* Will print an error and prevent installing. (instead of behaving erratically due to low memory conditions). No bug-reports are wanted with such ram-size.
* Installing from DVD as a source (at a minimum) must work within this limit.

>> Currently it is set to 512Mb (there is an error in text mode, wich informs the user that it has not enough RAM)


2- Anaconda 'soft memory requirement' (SOFT_MEM_REQ)
* Anaconda will not prevent installing, it will print a warning instead:
"You have less than SOFT_MEM_REQ of RAM, some features might not work or might work incorrectly/erratically. Please try with more RAM first before filling a bug-report"

>> Not sure if anaconda supports this, but currently any ram-size less than 1GB should print a warning. This is mostly to improve bug-reporting.

I repeated the test with F18b TC3 and it fails the same with 768mb and works with 1Gb.

I repeated the test with F18b TC6 and it fails the same with 768mb

I repeated the test with F18 RC2 (18.37.11) and it fails the same with 768mb
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