Re: bsdinstall: system requirements: memory/RAM: ZFS: 2048 MB for an ordinary installation plus a desktop environment

In reply to: Brandon Allbery : "Re: bsdinstall: system requirements: memory/RAM: ZFS: 2048 MB for an ordinary installation plus a desktop environment"
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From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:14:28 UTC

Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> writes:
> FWIW my understanding is that ZFS root is such a memory hog that
> anything under 16GB is disrecommended and 32GB preferable.

This has never been true.  You can easily run FreeBSD with ZFS root on
the smallest DigitalOcean droplets (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB storage).
I've been doing just that since 2017 when those same droplets came with
only 512 MB RAM.

DES
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