Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM
Daniel Robitaille
robitaille at gmail.com
Tue May 9 16:35:59 BST 2006
On 5/9/06, Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek at lichota.net> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
> >> I will try to test Ubuntu version tomorrow, along with Flight 7 of
> >> Kubuntu to see if the problem is still there.
> >
> > I would not expect the results to be different.
>
> With Ubuntu (flight 7), on my laptop (240 MB of real memory) it is even
> worse than with Kubuntu :(
> I cannot even turn off swap (swapoff -a) without freezing the system or
> killing swapoff process due to out-of-memory.
>
> Can someone else verify this (with real setup, not in virtual environment)?
I don't see that. With my laptop (Ubuntu Flight 7 + daily updates),
with 256mb of ram, I turned off swap, and the system is still usable,
but a little bit slower. That's with Firefox running and your default
set of applets installed in the panel. Here is the output of the
free command before and after turning off the swap:
daniel at laptop:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 248196 242320 5876 0 1528 50936
-/+ buffers/cache: 189856 58340
Swap: 730916 33972 696944
daniel at laptop:~$ sudo swapoff -a
Password:
daniel at laptop:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 248196 244544 3652 0 136 43460
-/+ buffers/cache: 200948 47248
Swap: 0 0 0
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Daniel Robitaille
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