Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 04:28:02 -0500
From: Dubiousjim <lists+alpine-devel@jimpryor.net>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] Minimal ram requirements?
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Does anyone know what are minimal ram requirements for doing something
useful with Alpine? I don't mean absolutely bare minimum to run, but
something like a minimum recommended amount? I ask because I was adding
Alpine to some wikis listing lightweight or run-from-ram distros, and
some of these enumerate what the distros claim their ram requirements to
be. (Such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM.)

But I couldn't find any discussion of this anywhere for Alpine. If I
boot from an ISO (on a USB stick) and don't do anything further, about
47 or 59 MB of RAM are in use. But I'd be surprised if it were possible
to usefully use Alpine on a machine with only 64 MB of ram. I expect 512
MB of ram is plenty. In between??? I don't know. Does anyone have
relevant experience?

-- 
Dubiousjim
dubiousjim@gmail.com


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