Hi Ian,
Ian Jackson wrote:
> Axel Beckert writes ("Re: Bug#849867: xen-create-image: default config file
> contains bad values"):
> > Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> > > This is no longer sufficient for current kernels in Stretch and
> > > should be increased.
> >
> > WTF? I still have VMs (running Wheezy) which work with 48 MB of RAM. I
> > also have hardware with just 80 MB of RAM which run slow but fine with
> > Jessie. (But since Stretch won't
> > support Pentium 1 anymore I need to look for another distro for that
> > machine anyways.)-:
>
> I looked at the the installation manual and it says 112Mb for the
> installler. That's unchanged from jessie and probably hasn't been
> updated for stretch. Thorsten, if that figure is wrong, you may want
> to file a bug against the manual.
*nod*
> Also, I conjecture that Thorsten's initramfs's may be much larger than
> Axel's.
Ah, including initramfs. Ok, with the generic (and not hw-specific)
initramfs, 128 MB might indeed be too little.
> > Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > I suggest we increase it to 512M.
> >
> > Sounds like far too much to me. I would have increased it to 256M.
>
> I don't object to that lower value. There is certainly a strong
> argument for being conservative at this stage of the Debian release.
I'm actually still undecided. Bascially so far I kept it at the
smallest sane-ish memory size, but your comment made me think if that
scheme should be changed in general. I still have the feeling that
half a gig or RAM is quite a lot for a small, but otherwise normal and
not deliberately minimal VM, but 256 MB is indeed rather small
nowadays. So e.g. 384 MB is also a value I currently think about.
> I'm happy to help. My github username for work stuff is
> `ijackson-citrix'.
You should have gotten an invitation.
> I hope you have found my interventions in the outstanding bug reports
> helpful.
Definitely.
> > I'll try do an upload of what's in git plus your propositions below at
> > least.
>
> That would be great, thanks. (I haven't checked what's in git.)
Mostly general maintenance stuff. New Ubuntu releases, policy bumping,
typos found by more recent lintian and check-all-the-things versions, etc.
> For the avoidance of doubt, I understand that you intend to do the
> upload and I shouldn't do anything. Of course your life may intervene
> so you might not get round to it. When should I time out ? :-)
/me grins. Actually I thought already about from when on an NMU makes
sense.
Let's say if I haven't uploaded a new version on 11th of January in
the late (European) morning. Is that fine for you?
Regards, Axel
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