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Re: system requirements

To: Doruk Fisek <dfisek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: system requirements
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:21:47 -0600
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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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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



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