Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

[Ronan Mullally]

Sorry to followup a followup, but:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, George Farris wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:

> > XUbuntu should be used on PIII machines with 128->256MB of RAM and we
> > normally have enough 128MB SDRAM sticks to upgrade them. But anything
> > less and it's scrap metal.

I'm running 9.04 on and old P3 500 with 256MB of RAM:

              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
 Mem:        250672     208192      42480          0      21280     132880
 -/+ buffers/cache:      54032     196640
 Swap:      1020088       1184    1018904

It's not doing much (a home office gateway running DHCP, Bind, Postfix,
PPPoE, etc), but has no memory problems at all (It's not of course running
X).  I recently upgraded it from 192MB.  It used to run Gentoo (builds
took a while).


-Ronan