DRAM usage on AST2500 with OpenBMC and Redfish

[Patrick Venture]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:53 PM Ed Tanous <ed.tanous at intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/22/19 1:14 PM, Keith Williamson wrote:
> >
> > Is 512MB DRAM on the AST2500 more than enough for OpenBMC, Redfish, etc
> > or is anyone in the community recommending 1GB DRAM?
> >
> Relevant quote:
> "640 K ought to be enough for anybody"
>
> At this point in time, the systems I'm working on only support 512MB,
> and I've never even thought about wanting more, except in maybe a debug
> context for capturing logs to ram.  On the other end of the spectrum,
> I've heard that the platforms that support 128MB have a tough time;  I
> don't know of any in between data points.

With only 128 on an ast2400, I get to prune packages every time we
rebase.  Things really bloat out.  Hopefully we'll have no more python
soon, and that'll help a bit.