Re: system requirements

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Doruk Fisek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What are the minimum system requirements of XFS?
>
> It enlarges the kernel a lot, is it able to run on a 8 mb ram box for example?
> (don't think so)  Any unrecommended (and recommended) hardware?
>
>                               Doruk
>
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> FISEK INSTITUTE - http://www.fisek.org

I have seen reports of people running it on low memory machines, but I 
cannot
remember any particulars. Yes, it does grow the kernel quite a bit, but 
you can
turn of some parts of it at least (quotas, acls, dmapi) and definitely 
kdb, not
that kdb is really anything to do with xfs, that makes a pretty large 
change on
its own.

My simple test of pruning the memory back on a test box did not boot 
with 8 Meg,
but it is dual cpu, has all the above turned on in the kernel, runs 
networking, scsi
and ide disks etc - probably a little ambitious. 16M came all the way up 
though.

In general XFS is not to resource hungry, it generally does not seem to 
use lots of
cpu - unless you want to do nothing but crunch inodes. I have seen it on 
everything
from old laptops to some pretty high end boxes.

Steve