[ros-dev] reactos 0.2.7-RC2 is out

[Alex Ionescu]

Bernd Blaauw wrote:

>
> *RC2 installation cdrom requires 52MB of RAM to succesfully copy files 
> to harddisk in VMware. This looks to me as a regression, as 0.25/0.26 
> was able to do this with 20MB of XMS. If using a lower amount of RAM 
> than 52, the copy process hangs at a certain percentage.
> Please confirm, as ROS requirements are stated as 'Pentium, 32MB RAM' 
> (IIRC)
>
This is indeed a blocker. The release version should not require 
anywhere near that amount of RAM. Do we have a leak? Are our flushing 
algorithms broken? I thought that the installer would notice when memory 
is running out, and clean up the cache.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu