Fedora memory requirements

timyaukey · 01-02-2005, 09:40 PM

I have a bunch of 866mhz PIII boxes I want to install Fedora Core 3 on, but they only have 128MB of memory. What have other people found out for performance of Fedora Core 3 in graphical mode with this kind of configuration? If there are performance problems, are they mostly in the responsiveness of the GUI or do other apps slow down as well?

misc · 01-03-2005, 12:54 AM

With just 128 MiB of RAM you will run out of physical memory easily unless you install a light-weight X window manager. And as soon as swap space is accessed regularly, overall performance will be poor.

Btw, note that there's a separate Fedora forum here.