Agreed. My netbook has 1G of memory and actually ran virtualbox
surprisingly well while I was giving a presentation using Libre Office
Impress. It might be possible that you have an issue with your memory.
Try running a memory diagnostic.
On 06/19/2015 10:32 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Matthew Gillen <m...@mattgillen.net> wrote:
I'm looking for some advice on tuning my linux box's memory management.
I've got an older workstation that has merely 4GB of memory. If I try
to run Firefox, and a few java apps (e.g., Eclipse), my machine thrashes
about and effectively locks up because of out-of-memory issues.
4GB is a ton for regular tasks. That’s all two of my boxes have and I can even
run virtualbox with a linux guest without issue. I don’t see how those two
apps are going to max out your system. I bet your issues are not firefox and
eclipse.
What is really using your system resources?
- Eric
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