Comment 10 for bug 1050595

Having received and e-mail on both the docs and server lists about serverguide minimum memory requirements changes, I found this bug report.

I have a 200 Mhz computer with only 128 Mbytes of memory.
The computer was used throughout the 12.04 release cycle as a minimum requirements test case. Until today I have not been involved with any 12.10 testing.

Todays 12.10 i386 ISO was downloaded and put to CD-ROM.
Installation went fine, except the install-grub stage was incredibly slow. Now the server is running fine.

The only time this computer has run out of memory is with 11.10 when I tried to compile the kernel. It took 33 hours 4 minutes and 57.6 seconds before it gave up with an out of memory error.

Myself, I don't think the minimum memory requirements needed to be increased, at least for real hardware. I don't really care if they are, I'm just saying is all.