And for the 'old machines'? Last thread we were talking about was making lubuntu-core more easily available. On these low RAM machines, which as Chad has stated are limited to v25 Chomium unless he can get v27 to build in 32 bit, I again fail to see the advantage? F/fox as with slimmed down memory usage is good to go now. The clock is ticking and decisions have to be taken fairly soon. Maybe this is a subject best discussed for 14.04 LTS.
Regards, Phill. On 3 June 2013 20:17, Yorvyk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/06/13 00:16, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > >> On 06/01/2013 03:30 PM, Yorvyk wrote: >> >> I've not found any down sides to zRAM with more than 512 MiB of >>> RAM. Below that, especially with CPUs below 1GHz, there are >>> frequent pauses as memory gets swapped about when the zRAM >>> allocation has been used up and swap starts using the disk >>> partition/file. Above 2GiB of RAM zRAM doesn't appear to have much >>> effect. >>> >> >> And this is the problem... when you *really* need it, on older slower >> PCs with little RAM, zRAM doesn't work as smoothly as some seem to be >> suggesting. Using it on a 2GB Lubuntu machine seems somewhat >> pointless... you already have enough RAM for most normal desktop >> usage purposes in that case. >> >> My sense is that zRAM probably helps most in a fairly small set of >> machines that have decent CPUs *and* limited RAM... maybe 1.5GHz to >> 2GHz dual core CPUs and 512MB to 1GB of RAM? But I don't think that >> is all that common, and such machines can often add more RAM, which >> is the right way to prolong their usefulness, I think. >> >> Looks like there is some confirmation of this:- > > "Netbooks: Market is now getting flooded with these "lightweight > laptops". These are memory constrained but have CPU enough to drive > on compressed memory (e.g. Cloudbook features 1.2 GHz processor!)." > > From > http://code.google.com/p/**compcache/<http://code.google.com/p/compcache/> > > > -- > > > Steve > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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