On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
For Fedora 27 it says this:
Fedora Workstation to a laptop or desktop computer that has at least 1
GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB space available
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
When I set a VM to 1G it's always unusable. Sometimes it's PackageKit
that crashes first, which causes systemd-coredump to spin up and run
out of memory next, and then oom killers start killing off various
processes. Sometimes the oom killing just starts happening without a
prior crash. In any case I never get a desktop.
With 1.5G RAM I usually get a desktop but then if anything crashes,
and it seems like PackageKit is crashing often when under memory
pressure (?), it kicks off systemd-coredump which makes the memory
problem worse, and a bunch of oom killers start killing off various
processes. In any case, I cannot successfully run the installer or
Firefox by themselves.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1559176
For reference there's a GNOME performance hack fest [1] happening in
May to review the stack to improve performance on low resource devices
such as the Raspberry Pi and similar cheap SBCs, this should help
improve this across all similar device classes/specs.
[1]
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Hackfests/Performance2018