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Does CentOS really use that much more RAM than Debian?
I've got a 128MB minimal CentOS (KVM) VPS that's struggling to yum install as it's running out of memory. I've never had that issue with apt-get and Debian on a small box like that. So my question is, is CentOS more memory hungry or is it just the fact that i'm running KVM instead of OpenVZ now and thus am using more memory (no shared kernel etc).
Thanked by 1rokok
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Yes
Disable plugins for yum and everything will be fine.
nano /etc/yum.conf
Plugins=1 to Plugins=0
Ctrl + O to save and then Ctrl + X to exit nano.
Yes
It is. Disable plugins and you'll be fine
Yes. Click on link below and scroll down to "Recommended minimum requirements":
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
CentOS 6 minimum requirements: 392M CLI/512M GUI per logical CPU
Why not switch to a VPS with larger RAM? They are so cheap today from LET providers.
are you saying debian is better than centos? yes.
Yes, because RHEL is more memory hungry and CentOS = RHEL.
RHEL is aimed entirely at the enterprise, where a 2GB VM might be considered "small". I doubt anyone at RedHat, Inc. is testing RHEL on 128MB VPSes.
Yes CentOS uses a significant amount more ram that Debian.
thanks for this discussion. so what is the advantage of centos then? compared to debian?
CentOS has more support has Debian, but are advantages and disadvantages to everything. You pick what accomplishes your tasks.