Minimum memory requirement for 0710?

[ElecCham]

So LinuxMCE looks promising from the writeups, and I really would like to try it out... but so far I haven't gotten far enough to make much of anything go!

I've got an Asus A8N-LA mainboard http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00647121&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=&product=1843642 with an Athlon64 3800+ (IIRC) and 1.5GB of RAM.  The disks are a pair of 500GB SATA drives in a software RAID-1 mirror, separate partitions for /boot, swap, and /.

After successfully completing the installation as a core-only system, I started the machine up and clicked "Open admin webpage", then got distracted by other things.  By the time I came back, the disk was thrashing and response time to anything - even just a keypress - is on the order of five seconds.

I'd originally had only 1GB in the machine and happened to be logged in as root on a console, and thus gotten to watch as the kernel started killing tasks due to running out of memory.

Is it really that 0710 requires more than 1.5GB of RAM to even run, or have I come across a bug?  How should I go about diagnosing this...?

[colinjones]

1.5GB is plenty even for a Hybrid let alone a standalone core.

[ElecCham]

Okay, well with the aid of "top" I've narrowed it down some - it's the "ushare" process.  It grows by about 1% of available memory every ten seconds or so.

Anything I can do to try and figure out what's really going on here?  This is on a brand-new CD-based install.

[cirion]

Why not try the new beta4?
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Version_0710_Beta4

I would use the 64bit DVD on your core...
If you have a small HD to use as boot drive you will not need to wipe your raid.

I run 4x750GB Sata Raid5 and have a 200Gb ide disk as boot in my core.
The raid works great after a reinstall even when changing motherboard I have tried

[ElecCham]

Hehe, I will try that - last I looked Beta4 wasn't out there yet

I am running the 64-bit core on this machine, and the RAID-1 is the boot drive.  I've got a bigger RAID 0+1 which is still hooked up to the old system which will be the main storage, once I get it working...

[ElecCham]

Beta4 does indeed not display this problem.

Now onto the next issue, in a different thread...