Installation and Fix of i2p inside Whonix-Workstation by Default

[Patrick]

@Thinkablemellow

We can try to lower that and see how it impacts performance, but these Defaults seem to me quite Outdated.

Yes, can be (re-)considered.

@Thinkablemellow

I remember a Poll about that here on the Forum, is this really an Issue ?

https://twitter.com/Whonix/status/1070983624105676801

User Poll - How much RAM do you have?

poll

Whonix-Workstation 14 - increase default RAM?

Whonix-Workstation with 768 MB RAM konsole gets very slowly responsive after starting Tor Browser in Whonix 14 development version (not yet uploaded, but probably soon). Therefore temporarily set RAM to 1024 MB RAM. Might be permanent, though. Depends on if we find solutions to reduce RAM usage. I suspect nothing that Whonix does eats a lot RAM. Suspect is KDE. I’ve seen KDE run on odroid C2. Even small devices nowadays have 2 GB RAM. I fear it may not be possible to keep it at 768 MB RAM usa…

@Thinkablemellow

In what kind of Setup?

Debian, VirtualBox, Whonix default RAM settings.

@Thinkablemellow

I’ve never had an Issue even with 4GB RAM on an old Qubes Laptop.

Qubes / Qubes-Whonix manages RAM far more efficiently.

• Simplified said, “There is no GUI running inside VM.” I mean by that, no “full X server”, lightdm, XFCE is running inside a VM. XFCE desktop environment packages aren’t even installed by default in VMs. X running inside Qubes VMs is connected to X running in dom0. The de-duplication of that saves a ton of RAM.
• Qubes RAM management isn’t as static as “if VM is started, assign it to VM in full”. It dynamically assigns RAM. I.e. VMs that are just auto started but idle need far less RAM. Not sure this might be called memory ballooning.

Therefore Qubes / Qubes-Whonix cannot be compared much to Non-Qubes-Whonix as far as RAM requirements are going.

@Thinkablemellow

I think it was depending on your requirements, so i guess no?

No idea. i2p-router is in packages.debian.org and there is now also:

• GitHub - Kicksecure/binaries-freedom: https://forums.whonix.org/t/policy-for-inclusion-of-compiled-software/6635
• Policy for Inclusion of Compiled Software

Depends but things might have changed now.

As per https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/supported there are bundled apps, third party plugins. Perhaps it’s about these third party plugins which aren’t packaged but the point? Didn’t read much and not sure which ones he might be referring to.