[lubuntu-devel] non pae

Henk Terhell hterhell at chello.nl
Sat Mar 12 07:34:25 UTC 2016



Op 2016-03-12 om 07:48 schreef Nio Wiklund:
> Den 2016-03-12 kl. 00:22, skrev Henk Terhell:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Henk and everybody else who wants to test how much RAM is needed by
>>> Lubuntu Xenial,
>>>
>>> Would it possible for you to try installing while limiting the
>>> available RAM with the boot option mem=xxxM (e.g. mem=256M)
>>> and find the limit, where it stops working? You can compare your
>>> results with those at
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods#Test_results
>>>
>>> Notice that you will get different results with different hardware, so
>>> a result from Xenial should be compared to a result from Trusty in the
>>> same computer.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>>>
>>
>> Hi Nio
>> At boot option in the installation on my desktop I added mem=224M. There
>> was no progress shown after some 20 minutes spinning of the dvd and I
>> stopped it.
>> But at mem=256M the installation with manual partitioning went smoothly.
>> The memory usage is now 135 MB right after boot. It increases over time
>> to 145 MB without any input.
>> Looks like a neat value for L16.04 i386.
>>
>> Henk
>>
>
> Yes Henk,
>
> It is a neat value.
>
> - Is it with the desktop iso file or alternate iso file?
>
> - Can you also tell us also about the computer (at least CPU and 
> graphics chip/card)?
>
> Thanks for testing :-)
> Nio
>
It is with the Xenial desktop ISO daily build 20160311

Here is the profile:
https://gist.github.com/f5e450fe6d09783d83ae
It is an Acer Aspire desktop with AMD Sempron 3400+ single core
Additional Graphic card NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] but 
NVIDIA proprietary driver has not (yet) been installed. Henk



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