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

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a):
> The high water mark seems to be 272828 KB=266MB. There is a sudden spike
> in memory usage. I have noticed on "ps" output that there are _2_
> ubiquity processes then:
> root      7092  2.6 12.1  60480 29012 ?        Ss   15:50   0:13
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubiquity gtkui
> root     11150  0.0  7.7  59452 18588 ?        D    15:58   0:00
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubiquity gtkui
> 
> I will prepare such graph also for Kubuntu for comparison.

I have put also results for Kubuntu on page
http://lichota.net/~krzysiek/projects/kubuntu/ubiquity-memory-usage/
This run was with swap turned off, Kubuntu seems to handle this nicely.

The high water mark was 173936 KB= 170 MB.

I will check if with swap enabled there is any difference.

	Krzysztof Lichota



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