On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:43:31 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: (...) >> Wow... 216 MB of ram and you have _no swap_? That's suicide... > > When I parted the hard disk, I remeber leaving about 1 gigabite swap, > and in fact here it is from `parted': > > # parted (...) > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 8390MB 8390MB primary fat32 boot > 2 8390MB 40.1GB 31.7GB extended lba > 5 8390MB 9434MB 1045MB logical linux-swap > 6 9434MB 21.0GB 11.5GB logical ext3 > 7 21.0GB 26.2GB 5239MB logical ext3 > 8 26.2GB 40.1GB 13.8GB logical ext3 > > I don't know why it does not figure in `free -m', but it is there.
The "/swap" partition has to be mounted. Put here the content of your "/etc/ fstab". >> What the...!!! >:-O >> >> How can you pretend to run your system with as little as 28 MB of >> available ram? You are likey running out of memory, so either add more >> ram (this is highly recommended) or use a ligthweight desktop/ window >> manager with programs that are not as resource and memory hungry as >> iceweasel is. > > Do you think it is possible to work it out using a lighter desktop > manager? Sure, many people does it. Or even consider using another linux distribution prepared to run with these kind of low resource systems. > But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has > become heavy only recently, and the machine is always the same. I can't tell but your system can't be happy with 216 MB of ram and running applications such as Iceweasel. Sooner or later it has to break. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jq5mrv$l92$1...@dough.gmane.org