Stephen Lord schrieb:
>
> 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
I was using it on a 12Mb box without problems. In a previous mail I
wrote:
I made the lowmem test with my test machine. It is a pentium 200 and
I used 12MB of ram. The disks are two Quantum Fireballs 15GB with DMA
enabled. The disks have 3 partitions each configured as RAID 1.
/dev/md0 /boot (50M)
/dev/md2 / (14G)
/dev/md1 swap (500M)
The RAID /dev/md2 was syncing while I ran hevy NFS and disk to disk
copy traffic and I updated some RPMS. Everything worked very fine!!!
No crash, no endless swapping.
The same test with only 8MB ram was a pain because lack of ressources.
-Simon
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