Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:02:12 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 287719] bsdinstall: system requirements: memory/RAM: UFS and ZFS Message-ID: <bug-287719-8135-BTjhW2njKS@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-287719-8135@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-287719-8135@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287719 Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ziaee@FreeBSD.org Resolution|--- |Not Accepted Status|New |Closed --- Comment #1 from Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> --- The 256MiB minimum was just reviewed with last week's CURRENT when that commit went in. For additional info, as it says in the commit you linked, pkgbase is what requires 256MiB. As it says in the Reddit thread you linked, we have users running FreeBSD on <100MiB of RAM, and it can be tweaked much farther than that. Desktop is just one of many third party applications which requires additional RAM over the minimum. Believe it or not, embedded is a massively more popular use-case than desktop. We are also supporting use-cases which really require TBs of RAM. The ZFS requirements were due to a bug in our previous ZFS implementation, which is why that recommendation was removed. I have a machine with two pools and over 4TB of disks which has been running on 4GB RAM with zero problems for a few years. Still, UFS is much simpler and thus recommended for resource constrained applications. As for the desktop recommendation, there are more than a few desktops in the wild from people who strip adverts from the web who are happy with 1Gb ram, and there are people who video conference while doing other things and organize their browser tabs that are not happy with 16Gb ram. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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