Since installing LMS in newer distro's is becoming more of a pain, I have created a simple CentOS VM to host LMS 7.7. Without much thought I gave it 768MB ram and a single core of an Intel Q6600 and it runs great. The swap partition in the guest is 1.5GB, and I imagine I could probably shrink that? The smaller the VM image, the better. It is on an SSD, which can't hurt.
How low can I drop the ram before it will really affect the performance? My library.db is 44MB, my persist.db is 158MB, and the artwork.db is 520MB, if those matter.
How low can I drop the ram before it will really affect the performance? My library.db is 44MB, my persist.db is 158MB, and the artwork.db is 520MB, if those matter.