# The Trouble with Tribbles…: Running illumos in 48M of RAM

> Running illumos in 48M of RAM
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> Whilst tweaking mvi recently, I went back and had another look at just how minimal an illumos install I could make.
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> And, given sufficiently aggressive use of the rm command, the answer appears to be that it’s possible to boot illumos in 48 meg of RAM.

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