Bug 151930

Summary: factory installation needs more than 256M RAM
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: peter czanik <peter>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aj, ke, suse-beta
Version: Beta 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PowerPC   
OS: Other   
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Description peter czanik 2006-02-17 19:44:46 UTC 
From my post to the factory list:
"I started to install it on PPC. When installed it in graphics mode, it
froze completely: keyboard/mouse does not respond, and mouse neither.
Then I started a VNC install to be able to watch F3/F4 debug consoles
continuously. It turned out, that 256MB of RAM is not enough for
installation. I started installing for the third time. Now I did a
swapon /dev/hda2 on a previously created 1G swap partition. I just
started the package manager to resolve conflicts, and already 128M of
swap is used..."
Now packages are already installing and my machine uses 553MB of swap at the moment.
Comment 1 peter czanik 2006-02-18 01:31:43 UTC 
With 2GB of swap (a second 1G swap partition was automatically enabled by YaST), it still ran out of memory. 'F1' shows under the start your VNC client text:
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/First-Stage/F10-cleanup: line 11: 10787 Killed    swapoff -a
Comment 2 peter czanik 2006-02-18 02:10:39 UTC 
As it's a 9MB file, bugzilla did not allow to attach y2logs. See http://www.mkk.szie.hu/~czanik/y2.tgz
Comment 3 peter czanik 2006-02-22 20:52:17 UTC 
It's a reproducable bug with factory as of beta4. I don't seem to have such a problem when installing from CD.
Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2006-04-05 19:09:20 UTC 
It should be better now.  Can you confirm this?
Comment 5 peter czanik 2006-04-05 20:00:51 UTC 
It's much better, but not yet good, when installing factory. When I don't turn swap on, the machine works very slowly, even the mouse does not respond immediatelly.
A CD install works fine (beta9 CD of SUSE Linux and SLES).
Comment 6 peter czanik 2006-04-06 08:29:55 UTC 
Bad news: after another sync with factory, my machine froze again at the "installation settings" screen with "evaluating packages selection" window in the middle, when forgot to turn on swap. The situation was better a few days ago...
BTW: sorry, if if the texts are wrong, I translated them back from Hungarian.
Comment 7 Klaus Kämpf 2006-04-10 19:37:16 UTC 
The amount of data in factory is huge. You definitely need more than 256MB for factory.
We currently have no better solution.
Comment 8 peter czanik 2006-04-11 11:04:10 UTC 
It worked fine before the new package manager. And there was a very short period, around the 4th of April, when it worked.
BTW: does it also mean, that that a DVD install will not work with 256M of RAM? A DVD install has just a bit fewer software packages as factory.
Comment 9 Klaus Kämpf 2006-04-11 11:13:21 UTC 
The old package manager used the 'yast' type metadata whereas the new one uses the 'yum' type (xml) which is _much_ larger.

A bi-arch (32/64 bit) DVD has approx 8000 packages, the full factory tree includes ppc and ppc64 and has approx 23000 packages.
Comment 10 Klaus Kämpf 2006-07-21 13:45:46 UTC 
Reponened for cleanup after Code10 release.
Comment 11 Klaus Kämpf 2006-07-21 17:19:48 UTC 
Fixed in 10.2