Tom Duffy writes:
=> I was wondering what the smallest memory system somebody has tried XFS
=> on. The webpage says 64MB minimum and I know that I have seen XFS working
=> on 64MB, but I was wondering, will 32MB be ok? How about 16MB w/ swap?
=>
=> Ananth told me that the recovery was the most memory intensive part...so,
=> I would like to know if anybody has gone through a recovery on a low
=> memory system and things have been OK...or not?
=>
=> thanks,
=>
=> -tduffy
=>
32 Mb was fine when I checked. Lower should be ok too. The original IRIX
code could chew a lot of memory in recovery and would usually fail on small
memory systems. But we've rewritten the code responsible a couple of times
since then so it uses smarter memory allocation.
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