# Supported systems have at least 16 GB of RAM

**Date:** 2026-09-04
**Status:** active

## Context

EASY-BEE boots the live image with `toram`. The compressed live medium is
copied into RAM before the root filesystem is used. During investigation of a
boot failure, the large squashfs copy was observed to stop part-way through.

The servers in scope are not low-memory systems. The minimum supported
hardware configuration has 16 GB of installed physical RAM.

## Decision

- EASY-BEE targets and supports systems with at least 16 GB of installed RAM.
- Capacity below 16 GB is outside the supported hardware envelope.
- A mid-copy `toram` failure on supported hardware must not be attributed to
  insufficient total RAM without direct evidence such as `ENOSPC`, an OOM
  event, or an unexpectedly restricted tmpfs.
- Diagnostics must preserve the actual copy/read error so media transport,
  virtual-CD disconnects, and I/O failures can be distinguished from memory
  exhaustion.

## Consequences

The approximately 2.8 GB live medium has sufficient capacity headroom on
supported systems. Current v14 boot investigation therefore treats the
part-way SquashFS copy failure as a source-media or virtual-media read-path
failure unless boot logs provide explicit evidence of memory exhaustion.