<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, H.S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hs.samix@gmail.com">hs.samix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:<br>
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> The command > df -h does not work. When I open home folder it says I have 6<br>
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</div>This is odd. I have never had to install anything special to use the df<br>
command (there is ">" with the command). The reason I asked is that if a<br>
partition being in Ubuntu is more than 95% full, the system will feel<br>
sluggish and slow down.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> gigs free space. I do not have any special effects enabled. Under<br>
> "Appearances," I checked 'normal.'<br>
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</div>Okay. Special effects might be too much for this system.<br>
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> I realize these days 375 megs of ram is not a lot. I'd rather go back to<br>
> hardy than spend money on a machine that's over 5 yrs old.<br>
<br>
</div>When you system is running, what is the output of this command:<br>
$> free -m<br>
<br>
It will show the memory (RAM) usage in your system.<br>
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> Otherwise jaunty seems to work well, except with skype; I'd switch to<br>
> another if I could. Skype sometimes grabs 70% of the CPU when FF is<br>
> running, then won't shut down.<br>
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</div>I saw another post here, I think you need the statically compiled skype<br>
(oss) from medibuntu repos to get around this problem.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I could not get > free -m to work either. I copied it into terminal. Does not require sudo does it? <br><br>$ > free -m<br>bash: -m: command not found<br><br>Am I missing something from the operating system?<br>
<br>I think I remember seeing something on skype re:P medibuntu.<br><br>Gary<br><br>