In 'Recommended System Requirements' memory is showing 256mb for all OS. Wondering if this should be amended so that newcomers are not disappointed.

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In 'Recommended System Requirements' memory is showing 256mb for all OS. Wondering if this should be amended so that newcomers are not disappointed.

Most jobs will run in 256, it is just a few that need more, so whatever goes on the page needs to reflect that. Most of the time 256 will continue to be fine.

You are right that it is a good idea to put something on that page to explain that the memory requirements vary. Then newcomers with smaller / older machines don't immediately panic and leave if they are unlucky enough to see the '476Mb needed' message in their first scheduler contact.

What might be useful is a warning on that page that there are a few times a year when the project is running mainly larger work, and that although the project will 'try to' keep some work available for 256Mb, there will be times when the 'normal sized' work runs out, perhaps even for a few days at a time, and especially over weekends etc if the admins are not at work to add more small tasks to the queue.

R~~

Thanks River.
My point exactly.

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