not enough memory?

[Rashkae]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Gusty, just for fun.
> It's on a 2GB RAM computer, 300GB HDD.
> File roller crashes, as well as Firefox.
> When waiting a while, a window apprear saying that foo application has
> crashed, but the system had not enough memory to guess why.
> Uh! 2GB is quite the upper average of memory amount on a modern
> computer.
> Would you know if it's a bug or not? Should I report it? (I know the
> status is still early experimental...)
> 

That's a lot of crashing going on here.

1), Did you include Swap when you installed the system?  2GB might sound 
like plenty, but it can fill up fast if you multi-task large applications.

2), I think this computer is a prime candidate for hardware diagnostics. 
     Start with memtest then badblocks.