zRam and Swapspace

[Liam Proven]

On 23 May 2013 15:52, "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 22 May 2013 07:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tried swapspace on my mother's laptop and there was no swap. I'll have
> >> to try again...
> >
> > Did you load a pile of apps to stress the memory?
> >
> > No memory load, no swap - that's what demand-based swap *means*.
>
> I had 14 WSJ tabs open in Firefox and had apt-get running in
> gnome-terminal. I'll have to try with more...

Try imgur & several dozen (at least) picture tabs. As many as you can
before it bogs down.

Have the window less than full screen so that you can keep an eye on 'top'
running in an xterm.

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Sent from my phone - please pardon brevity & typos.
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