Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a > month with just 512 MB. Git ran out of RAM trying to check out the Linux I can confirm that even 1GB of RAM is not really sufficient to use a Git repository that tracks the Linux kernel (I've so far been able to do it on m

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Nov 2024 21:54 +0200, from anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi (Anssi Saari): >> I have successfully booted Debian Bookworm (without a GUI) on VMs with >> slightly less than 256 MB RAM, so 512 MB should be plenty. > > I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Kjörling writes: > I have successfully booted Debian Bookworm (without a GUI) on VMs with > slightly less than 256 MB RAM, so 512 MB should be plenty. I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a month with just 512 MB. Git ran out of RAM trying to check out th

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only > 512mb ram. for this limited ram what debian release should be better > to install? All Debian releases are generally quite good for limited RAM circumstances. IME the main limit is the RAM used by `apt`, so for machines with

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 05:30:08PM +0800, Bitfox wrote: > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? Although the smallest VM we sell to customers is 1.5GiB RAM, I have some of our ow

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Nov 2024 22:49 +0800, from h...@bitfox.ddns.net (Bitfox): > Do you think if it's suitable to run a apache2 + php7 server for my personal > project (not wordpress)? I would say no; for the simple reason that it appears that no PHP 7 release is currently supported upstream. -- Michael Kjörli

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Bitfox
In addition to platform concerns, you'll have to figure out what you're running on this VPS, how to make it all fit within the available RAM (with or without swap), and which Debian version(s) support your applications. Do you think if it's suitable to run a apache2 + php7 server for my per

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 17:30:08 +0800, Bitfox wrote: > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? They probably install Debian on it for you; you usually don't get to run the installer yo

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 05:30:08PM +0800, Bitfox wrote: > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? The current one, bookworm, unless you mean something else by "release"... Cheers, Tom

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 05:30:08PM +0800, Bitfox wrote: > Hi > > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? > > Thanks. > Whatever your VPS vendor will support on their hardware. Debian

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Nov 2024 17:30 +0800, from h...@bitfox.ddns.net (Bitfox): > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? Bookworm (in other words, Stable). https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd6

debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Bitfox
Hi I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb ram. for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install? Thanks.