[ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

[Barry Drake]

On 30/05/14 08:16, Gareth France wrote:
> Unfortunately not, until I return there this afternoon. Being a 
> desktop it may not even have a model. All I know off hand is that it 
> is a Pentium 4.

If it never had a memory upgrade, you could be struggling with lack of 
memory and excessive use of swap.  Take a note of the memory size and 
the size of the swap partition.  You might consider one of the 
lightweight *buntus as a better starting point.  I have a Windows 2000 
box that had been upgraded both in memory and motherboard. Performance 
is well below average with Ubuntu, but with Lubuntu (I think that's what 
I put on it), it performs really well.

Regards,        Barry Drake.