On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 19:49, Ian Bruntlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On behalf of the Computer Wombling Project I am refurbishing a donated > Toshiba NB250-107 netbook. It has a 64-bit CPU and 1GiB RAM. Because of that > I installed 32-bit Lubuntu 18.04.1. Whenever I try to open a (small) document > with LibreOffice Writer, the hard drive whirs a bit, some of the LibreOffice > window appears... and then LibreOffice closes. > > I think it is running out of memory.
FWIW, it takes up to 2GB... http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/toshiba-nb250-107/ ... and you can probably pick up a 2GB SO-DIMM for peanuts. E.g. £1.50 from CEX: https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=2gb%20ddr3 That would likely transform the performance and usability for the cost of a half a pint. :-) > I've put a 2GiB partition on the hard drive It might be worth investigating zswap so that it swaps compressed data to the hard disk. It helps both efficiency and performance. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
