Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM

Krzysztof Lichota krzysiek at lichota.net
Tue May 16 00:47:31 BST 2006


Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a):
> Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a):
>> I have put also results for Kubuntu on page
>> http://lichota.net/~krzysiek/projects/kubuntu/ubiquity-memory-usage/
>> This run was with swap turned off, Kubuntu seems to handle this nicely.
>>
>> The high water mark was 173936 KB= 170 MB.
>>
>> I will check if with swap enabled there is any difference.
> 
> I have added to the page also results for Kubuntu with swap enabled.
> High water mark was 215580 KB=210 MB.
> Sudden drop at the end is caused by Kubuntu partitioning step turning
> off all swap.

For the sake of experimenting I have run also installer without KDE
desktop (results are on page).
High water mark was 134 MB, so it seems it might be doable to install
Kubuntu with 128 MB of RAM (with some tweaking like not starting services).

	Krzysztof Lichota

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