[RULE] Test with Slinky 0.4.5 and fc3 t3

[Richard Kweskin]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:46:59 +0200
Richard Kweskin <rkwesk at hellug.gr> wrote:

> After those tests I tried the same exact install on a box with 256 MB of ram http://www.rule-project.org/article.php3?id_article=79 and it ran fine. The fourth test was adding the line
> 
> 	append="mem=16MB"
> 
> to lilo.conf on this same box and rebooting. Then it began killing processes as on the other boxes but it did just manage to complete the boot process (after long delays.)
> 
> I managed to get dmesg, df, messages and free off the box.

Messages and dmesg turned out to contain nothing from this 16MB session as logging was turned off, along with practically everthing else :(

Just a short snippet from install.log:
Sun Nov 21 19:21:31 UTC 2004 Slinky installer starting.
Command line used:
initrd=rootfs.gz ramdisk_size=2048 root=/dev/ram0 rw BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Processor info:
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Memory info:
MemTotal: 257416 kB MemFree: 251300 kB Buffers: 2048 kB Cached: 324 kB SwapCached: 0 kB
==Fedora== Linux version <3> selected
install.log again contained several of these

setup                       ##warning: /etc/aliases created as /etc/aliases.rpmnew
snip
termcap                     ##################################################
warning: /etc/termcap saved as /etc/termcap.rpmorig
snip
Install completed: Sun Nov 21 14:45:23 EST 2004
===============================================
free showed
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         12764      11960        804          0        440       5472
-/+ buffers/cache:       6048       6716
Swap:            0          0          0
===============================================
df -h showed
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             1.8G  893M  881M  51% /
===============================================
> Revealing was the time it took after giving the command
> 
> 	halt -p
> 
> It immediately shut off, showing it had no processes to kill!
> 
> I guess this means that the bar for minimum ram for Fedora 3 needs to be raised? :(

Richard

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