[Libosinfo] [Patch] bump default ubuntu RAM size

[Didier Roche]

Le 08/10/2018 à 16:25, Didier Roche a écrit :
> Le 08/10/2018 à 13:21, Fabiano Fidêncio a écrit :
>> On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 13:12 +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, we can be more fine-grained, basically:
>>> * 16.04 -> Min and recommended is 2Gb (this was bumped when our
>>> 16.04.x
>>> maintenance image started to include snapd)
>>> * 18.04 and onward: 2Gb min, 4Gb recommended.
>>> However, if we bump recommended in that file to 4Gb, GNOME Boxes
>>> will
>>> set that as a default, which we aren't really keen on (the 4Gb
>>> recommended is a large estimate for people using a lot of tabs in
>>> their
>>> browser, which isn't our GNOME Boxes typical usage we are targeting
>>> at).
>>>
>>> Does it makes sense?
>>
>> On one hand it does, on the other hand ... I'd still prefer to have the
>> recommended amount of RAM properly set in osinfo-db.
>>
>> AFAIR, in Boxes the user can change the amount of RAM to the minimum
>> one if their decide to do so.
>>
>> Also, the recommended disk size has been increased, right? Would be
>> nice to have it changed as well.
>>
>
> It's a bit tricky because the configuration is shared between Ubuntu 
> desktop & server.
>
> We discussed that at length within the desktop team, and it seems the 
> conscensus is to separate the physical install recommendations vs 
> virtualised one. Will Cooke (manager of the desktop team) has just 
> updated the wiki page: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements?action=diff&rev2=110&rev1=109. 
> I hope that facilitate that patch which is increasing a non working 
> configuration.
> Keep me posted.

Hey,

Anything I can do to push this forward? We are in finale freeze on 
Thursday for our cosmic (18.10) release and it would be great if I can 
take an upstream snapshot, getting it into debian and syncing in ubuntu 
if possible (rather than distro-patching).

Thanks!
Didier