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Opened Jul 18, 2013 by import-from-Redmine@import-from-Redmine

Next time we bump RAM requirements: notify user at runtime if RAM requirements are not met

Originally created by Tails on #5502 (Redmine)

Latest update: #5502 (comment 116461)

Users with less RAM than recommended get confused because they can’t start all the software they would like concurrently.

Tails should therefore notify the user when booting it on a computer that does not meet the hardware recommendations. This notification would be printed somewhere on the tails-greeter (#5496 (closed)) (boot menu (#5528 (closed))) screen.

A more dynamic approach (possibly for a later iteration) could be to use http://www.hadess.net/2019/08/low-memory-monitor-new-project.html or similar; it could not only automate the detection of “how much RAM is needed for basic Tails usage” (instead of having to keep this knowledge up-to-date ourselves: if low-memory-monitor complains during our test suite, it could be a clear sign that we need to either optimize our stuff or bump the documented requirements); it could also warn the user whenever their usage of Tails requires an amount of RAM that exceeds their hardware’s capacity, which can happen even for systems that meet the documented minimum memory requirements.

Related issues

  • Related to #7235 (closed)
  • Related to #7986 (closed)
  • Related to #14544 (closed)
  • Related to #6876 (closed)
  • Related to #10060
  • Related to #7782
  • Has duplicate #7586 (closed)
Edited May 15, 2020 by import-from-Redmine
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Reference: tails/tails#5502