GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710301
Document RAM requirements/recommendations
Last modified: 2017-06-20 12:21:23 UTC
(from Montreal summit session) Jon's laptop was pretty much killed by disk IO when hibernating a vm.
(In reply to comment #0) > (from Montreal summit session) > > Jon's laptop was pretty much killed by disk IO when hibernating a vm. Right, I had the same when I only had 4G of RAM. I doubt we can do much about it, if at all. So I'd suggest we instead communicate our system requirements better.
So how do we handle this? Jon?
I'm gonna assume we want to go for the solution I recommended in comment#1.
Created attachment 300094 [details] [review] Added the suggestion of 4GB Ram and 1000GB disk to system requirements page for gnome-boxes Hello awesome gnome documenters. This is my first attempt at a patch so I am sorry if it was done incorrectly. Let me know if these system requirements make sense. Thanks!
Review of attachment 300094 [details] [review]: Thanks for this patch and I know this is your first patch so don't feel bad about any mistakes. Actually pretty good for the first patch. :) Please follow this guideline and ensure your commit log is compliant to it as much as possible: https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/CommitMessages ::: help/C/system-requirements.page @@ +63,3 @@ + <note style="advanced"> + <p>It is also recommended that you have at least 4GB RAM and 1000GB of disk space + available on your computer to safely run <app>Boxes</app>.</p> * 4G RAM is not good enough typically so we should recommend 8G. * 1000G of disk space isn't worth anything to us if its all used. We need to say "free disk space" to be clear here. * 1000G free disk space is too much to ask. We don't require that much. I'll go for 20G. * The intent of this bug was regarding performance and amount of disk space doesn't usually help with that, we need to recommend SSD drives too. * safely -> efficiently. I'll ask a docs team member to help us with wordings here. :)
Kerry, Do you plan to improve your patch as per review?
Created attachment 354095 [details] [review] help: Suggest 5GB RAM and 20GB of free disk space Boxes can overheat a system with insufficient RAM. A suggestion of 4GB RAM and 20GB disk was added as a guideline to help avoid crashing.
I addressed the review and pushed the changes. Attachment 354095 [details] pushed as d74a7dd - help: Suggest 5GB RAM and 20GB of free disk space