Fedora: low mem warning with 512 MB!

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

While installing Fedora, it warns me that it will immediately
enable swap because I have too litte mem.  But I have 512 MB!
If I look at /proc/meminfo on VC2, I see that it indeed sees
all the mem I have.  Is this a known problem?

Cheers,

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[Robert L Cochran]

Yes it is -- I believe I originally reported this problem some time ago 
during Beta 1. I was working with Red Hat on a solution for it, but I 
fell behind and got tied up with other matters. My fault. There is a 
possible fix for it available through the Bugzilla (I've forgotten the 
number), but I'm not sure whether I applied it properly.

Your problem happens to me also in Fedora Test, while installing on a 
Sony Vaio PCG-F350 notebook. I simply clicked 'cancel' (or was it 
'ignore'?) at the prompt warning me that memory is low. (The installer 
thinks I have a negative amount of memory.) I did not allow the 
installer to change the partition table at that point. Then the 
installation simply proceeded, without any apparrent problem.

Bob

Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While installing Fedora, it warns me that it will immediately
> enable swap because I have too litte mem.  But I have 512 MB!
> If I look at /proc/meminfo on VC2, I see that it indeed sees
> all the mem I have.  Is this a known problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> --    Jos Vos 
> --    X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: [phone]
> --    Amsterdam, The Netherlands        |     Fax: [phone]
>
> --
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[Elton Woo]

On September 28, 2003 08:53 am, Jos Vos <Jos Vos > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While installing Fedora, it warns me that it will immediately
> enable swap because I have too litte mem.  But I have 512 MB!
> If I look at /proc/meminfo on VC2, I see that it indeed sees
> all the mem I have.  Is this a known problem?

How much disk space are you allocating for the installation?
I wonder if you are also taking into account extra space needed
for temp files _during_ the install.

... just a thought ...

Elton ;-)

[Jos Vos]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> How much disk space are you allocating for the installation?

12 GB...
> I wonder if you are also taking into account extra space needed
> for temp files _during_ the install.
>
> ... just a thought ...

I was talking about *memory*, not disk space...

[Elton Woo]

On September 28, 2003 01:35 pm, Jos Vos <Jos Vos > wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> > How much disk space are you allocating for the installation?
>
> 12 GB...
> > I wonder if you are also taking into account extra space needed
> > for temp files _during_ the install.
> >
> > ... just a thought ...
>
> I was talking about *memory*, not disk space...

I am aware of that. But since you mentioned it started to
use the swap space, that's what made me suspect that
you might have been running out of space on the hd.
Seems it's not the case. Sorry I can't be of further
help....

tot zins!

Elton ;-)