What is the minimum disk space requirement to install and run MediaWiki? I attempted to install it on a VDS Linux/Apache server hosted by Jumpline with 500mb of space and at install, it returned an error message and it also seems to have used roughly 1500mb mainly in a tmp (500mb) file and in a /proc/kcore (1,000mb) file before giving up. I deleted the tmp which seemed to have been created by the file manager, but I have no idea what to do with the /proc/kcore file.
On Mar 4, 2004, at 20:26, Luke Townsley wrote:
What is the minimum disk space requirement to install and run MediaWiki? I attempted to install it on a VDS Linux/Apache server hosted by Jumpline with 500mb of space and at install, it returned an error message and it also seems to have used roughly 1500mb mainly in a tmp (500mb) file and in a /proc/kcore (1,000mb) file before giving up. I deleted the tmp which seemed to have been created by the file manager, but I have no idea what to do with the /proc/kcore file.
The scripts take up about 3 megabytes (including all the localizations). Other than that you should just need the database (space will vary with the amount of data you put in) and a handful of temp files for session data.
/proc/kcore isn't a real file; it's a virtual file used to access your system's memory. Nothing in /proc is an actual file on your disk drive, so you can discount the "size" of such files.
If you're using 500mb in temp space, then something's probably very very wrong. What kind of tmp file is this? What's it called? What's in it?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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