<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carsten Agger</b> <<a href="mailto:agger@c.dk">agger@c.dk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm running Xubuntu Edgy on an old PC with a 450MHz<br>Pentium II and 256 MBs of RAM.<br><br>It usually performs excellently, but sometimes it goes<br>into what appears to be an infinite loop.<br><br>I got a typical version of this scenario this morning. I was browsing
<br>the Web and hat four tabs open, and as I wanted to resize a (smallish,<br>52 K) JPEG picture to upload on my blog I started up the GIMP, and then<br>... nothing happened.<br><br>Or rather, it did: The hard drive started spinning and spinning and
<br>making a lot of noise, and the programs became unavailable - I couldn't<br>change window, couldn't bring up the Gimp to close it down, nothing was<br>possible. After five minutes, I gave up and pulled the plug (the mains '
<br>switch).<br><br>My guess as to what happened:<br><br>The Gimp's startup requirements + the memory used by Firefox were ><br>256K, thus forcing Xubuntu to swap between the programs.<br><br>My take as to what should have happened:
<br><br>I should have seen a general slowdown due to the swapping. However,<br>the Gimp should not have taken so many ressources as to make Firefox<br>unavailable, and vice versa.<br><br>Anybody knows what may be done to avoid such situations? In my book,
<br>with 256 Mb of RAM I should easily be able to run Firefox and Gimp<br>simultaneously.<br><br>Thanks in advance for any response,<br>Carsten<br><br><br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.modspil.dk">http://www.modspil.dk</a>
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I don't know how to solve your problem, but for situations like this it is handy to know that the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Backspace restart the X server, in effect taking you back to the login screen. Saves you some time in comparison to a reboot ;-)
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent