Sorry for the top post but did you check trackerd? I have had to kill that rotten ba***rd off many times for using cpu.
Cheers On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > Hey Caroline, > > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:58 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote: > > > > You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. > > You may be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've > > got a fast CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear > > bottleneck. > > I don't think I agree, I do refurbished computers which are normally P4 > CPUs with 512MB of RAM. According to tests an Ubuntu machine will work > reasonably well on 390MB of RAM or more, but less and it won't work very > well at all. > > XUbuntu should be used on PIII machines with 128->256MB of RAM and we > normally have enough 128MB SDRAM sticks to upgrade them. But anything > less and it's scrap metal. > > At first I took offence at your idea that 1GB is low "by today's > standards", but then I took a moment and thought that perhaps it's a > degree of ignorance on your part about who Ubuntu is being developed > for. > > It's not being developed (as Windows 7 is) for the latest and greatest > computers being sold right this second. It's being developed for all > computers ranging from the old P4s mentioned to the sub-powered Atom and > Arm netbooks all the way up to the monster 16GB RAM Gaming rigs for > playing Savage2. > > It it's not working on a computer with 1GB of RAM, then we need to fix > it. This is clearly not a case of user error. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
