[ltp] Booting problem after install of Ubuntu Alternative 6.10 on X41 Tablet

[Marcin Trybus]

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Richard Neill wrote:
| I wish I shared your optimism. I now have a 6 GB swap *file*, which
| I use to stop firefox from crashing (out of memory) more than once a
| fortnight. Performance is fine, since the memory that has been
| swapped out has already been leaked, and will probably never be
| re-used.

Fortunately I never had such a dreadful experience with swap. I have
512MB RAM on my T23 and under Ubuntu 6.10/Gnome 2.16.1 with Firefox &
Thunderbird running I normally have 40% memory load. I get up to 50%
with OOo, Liferea and Gaim running on top of it, so that's what I
wrote. With many opened Firefox windows it can get up to 80%, taking
some 120MB in total (sic!). Foxy surely likes to bloat itself but what
else is there?
The only time my TP needs to use swap are tasks like creating
thumbnails for a huge photo collection, so for me swap next to useless.

I don't know where Linux dumps my RAM during suspend, but I presume it
would be onto the swap partition and if that's full it creates an
extra swap file, right? Therefore I suggested swap > RAM.



When it comes to Firefox - It may be important that I always use a
downloadable binary from its Polish website firefox.pl as the Ubuntu
repository (a) tend to have an outdated version more often than not
(especially for bugfixes) and (b) has dependencies +locale that I
don't feel like downloading separately every time (monthly data limit
*sob*).
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