Bug 873343
| Summary: | Cannot install with 1 GB of RAM | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, niki.guldbrand, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-12-10 16:08:11 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jean-François Fortin Tam
2012-11-05 15:33:38 UTC
Based on tests in a VM, 1 GB should be plenty of memory to install from a Live CD image: Bug 875418, Comment 6. That test was with Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ A BZ search for kswapd found this: Bug 866988 - kswapd using 100%cpu for extended period on i686 kvm vhost - rawhide I cannot reproduce the problems reported in Comment 0 on a bare metal system with 1 GB memory using Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-i686-Live-Desktop.iso installed on a USB stick. Test procedure: Install Live CD image to 8 GB USB stick: $ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-i686-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdc Boot from USB stick. Top shows 1011296 KiB Mem. The installer starts, and the user interface is responsive. I did not attempt to actually install. I downloaded and tested the Beta TC8 iso now. Good news! The system's overall memory usage and responsiveness improved drastically: # Alpha - before starting anaconda: 467 MiB of 985.3 MiB, 0 swap out of 1.9 GiB (measurements from gnome-system-monitor) - launch anaconda: swap space gets disabled, mem usage climbs to 501 MiB - select language, keyboard layout, timezone, climbs to ~515-520 Mib - start the partitioning tool (after selecting the target disk)... memory usage jumps to 595 MiB when you get to the "would you like to autopartition or manually?" dialog, and stays at that level throughout partitioning. - installing: not tested. # Beta TC8 - before starting anaconda: 215 MiB (way better!) - launch anaconda: swap space gets disabled, memory usage climbs to 265 MiB - language, keyboard layout, timezone: mem usage climbs to 283 Mib - accessing the disk partitioning tool: 348 MiB - installing: could not test because of (already reported) bugs I could not actually test that it installs fine, but at least it's a step forward. Should this be kept open for retesting when the beta comes out? Thanks for your detailed comparative report. That is a significant reduction in memory usage. Quoting Jesse in Bug 875418, Comment 5: "With F18 and the rewrite we aren't really sure what our memory requirements are, and what is a bug of too much in use vs this is what we need." So retesting is going to be needed ... *** Bug 882634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I believe everything here is being tracked by bug 875418 as well, and that bug is even being actively worked on and commented in. I'm going to dup this one to there, which also shows the current status. Thanks for the report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 875418 *** |