Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:18:54AM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> >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
> 
> 
> The above was with the installed on the hard drive Dapper.  If I try
> the same (standard session + Firefox) from a Live CD, swapoff refuses
> to run: I get a  "cannot allocate memory".    error from swapoff.

Recent daily live CD session:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           250        242          7          0          9        123
-/+ buffers/cache:        109        140
Swap:            0          0          0

that's with only a gnome-terminal running, and an English locale.

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 - mdz