On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: > > For a few months, ending yesterday, I was using a 64bit machine with 1GB > RAM. For my daily usage, it was about half a GB too small. I have 3 > or 4 LXterminals, a browser with 10+ tabs, a chat client, Thunderbird > and occasionally LibreOffice Writer and a second browser. Most of the > time it squeaked by with a little swap usage, but occasional actions > (such as opening a bad marketing PDF) could cause it to thrash. If I > were just running one or two apps, I think 1GB could be more than just > fine. However, RAM usage seemed to always creep upwards during the > course of the day. Chromium-browser was one culprit. > > I switched back to a 4GB machine yesterday and am tracking RAM usage for > a while. So far it has been about 2.6 GB.
Are you talking about Lubuntu, or LXLE? -- Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
