[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH installer] abort installation if memory is less than 1GB

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 7/3/19 11:50 AM, Oguz Bektas wrote:
>> I do not want to die here, if one wants to continue, why not (e.g.,
>> the limit is not exactly 1024 but rather somewhere beteween 850-900
>> MB, and also then the error is IMO not reasonable, proxinstall +
>> gtk-webkit + base system need ~ 300 MB memory, and that the page
>> cache flushes result in memory almost OOM-like errors seems wrong.)
>>
>> I mean, the check is still OK, as this is our min. system requirement,
>> and it does normally not make sense to install PVE/PMG to anything with
>> less memory, besides from testing :)
> the reason i added the die is, it'll fail at the last step during
> unsquashfs if there's not enough memory (gets oom killed). this is kind
> of annoying and you end up with an unbootable system on top, so it's a
> waste of time. why wouldn't we prevent that?

as I already stated: 1024 is not the hardlimit, less works and we may even
be able to work with much less if I have some time to look at this in the
future. It'll be always good to remind people about less memory than the
minimal system requirements state, though. We just warn here, if it still
works then good, if not the user was warned, I do not see the problem?