hi samakv, it will run but it depends on the applications if it is memory hungry or not when it comes to decent performance... but applications are memory hungry nowadays...
all modern operating systems have its own *virtual memory*... its a combination of physical memory and swap space... the swap space is an extension of your physical memory for temporary storage... thus the higher swap space you allocated.. the higher virtual memory you have in your system... the virtual memory manager is using paging and swapping... when an application declare a variable either static or dynamic in data segment... it is allocated by pages.. normally in linux.. one page is 4kb.. even if you allocated just 1 byte variable.. it will consume 1 page or 4kb in memory... paging is where when your active process (running application) needs more memory (eg. malloc() ) and OS is running out of physical memory.. it will look for least recently used pages in physical memory (normally coming from inactive or sleeping process) and move that to swap space... swapping is where when OS is running out physical memory.. it looks for inactive or sleeping process and move its entire memory segments (eg. code, data, stack) to swap space... with that strategy and even though you have a big virtual memory by allocating a huge swap space.. your bottle neck is your disk i/o as memory i/o is N times faster than the disk i/o... to compensate that bottleneck.. first if you can increase your RAM and second convert your disk to SSD... SSD is just like a RAM disk.. but of course you need to factor also cpu i/o and network i/o in regards to performance... fooler. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:44 PM, samakv <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I meant will it run an xfce desktop? Web browsing, play some > movies (DVD) and basic desktop stuff? > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:14:27 +0800 > From: samakv <[email protected]> > To: Philippine List <[email protected]> > Subject: Challenge: install Debian on computer with 512mb RAM > > > Hello members, > > My colleague is living in Taguig area. He inherited a computer from the > office. It is a Pentium core duo (I think) but it's only got 512mb of > RAM. > > I've got the Debian Wheezy DVD (thanks to Zak Elap). Will it run? > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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