Problem installing from alternate CD

[Lars Noodén]

>> On 02/07/2013 07:04 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> 512 Megabytes of RAM used to be the 'gold-standard' for all of the
>>> Ubuntu variants, but that, alas, is no longer the case.  And I realize
>>> there is little Lubuntu can do to shield us from the ever-increasing
>>> memory requirements of the Linux kernel.
>>
> On 7 February 2013 17:42, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been noticing that my low-end daily use is around 1.1 - 1.5 GB RAM
>> on AMD64.  That is unfortunate because my machine only has 1GB and I
>> have to rely on swap for the rest.  That just with a mail client, a web
>> browser, and a chat client.  A second browser and an SIP client add
>> further.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
>>
On 02/07/2013 08:06 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:> Hi Lars,
> 
> this is at odds with what I see on my VM..
> 
> This has my browser open and out of the 512K RAM allocated to it, it still
> has ~ 275K cached up. I know owing to registered bug [1] that Chromium has
> a memory leak on sites such as the BBC. It is present in Ffox, but to a
> less marked degree.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603

It's a little high right now because I just opened an SIP client, but
it's been about these levels all day (and previous days, etc.)

top - 20:08:46 up  4:05,  5 users,  load average: 0.51, 0.32, 0.93
Tasks: 162 total,   2 running, 160 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  6.9 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 91.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
 0.0 st
KiB Mem:    986884 total,   917092 used,    69792 free,     7500 buffers
KiB Swap:  1014780 total,   455836 used,   558944 free,   276580 cached

Regards,
/Lars