Lubuntu System Requirement

Lars Noodén lars.nooden at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 17:56:04 UTC 2013


On 4/4/13 8:53 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 04/04/2013 09:27 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>> I stopped trying to use Chromium on my 1GB RAM machine.  Between it and
>> the other applications 1.5 GB was getting used, meaning too much
>> swapping going on.  As far as I can tell, Firefox has lower memory
>> requirements.
> All:
> 
> Please keep in mind that 64-bit systems require much more memory than
> 32-bit systems.
> 
> With 32-bit systems, I have no problems running Firefox (and Chromium)
> on systems having only 512 megabytes of RAM.  Admittedly, I seldom use
> Chromium.

That's almost certainly the problem.  However, I am stuck with 64-bit
because I use that machine to test the AMD64+Mac images.

Regards,
/Lars




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