On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:44:26 am Kristoffer Walker wrote:> My
> swap space was indeed being used from time to time (with more than
> > 1 web browser open, image manipulation, etc). So I guess my Ubuntu box
> > needs more memory these days than it used to (I have 512mb).
>
> Hmm okay.  512 MB is usually enough for normal light work.
>

Anecdotally speaking, I'd bump up to 1gb of RAM.  I've found 512mb of RAM
leaves me with a system that is annoyingly (though not unbearably) slow in a
GNOME environment.

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John D. Mort
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