1.3 KiB
1.3 KiB
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
toramfailure on supported hardware must not be attributed to insufficient total RAM without direct evidence such asENOSPC, 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.