On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 October 2009, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> Using the default compcache size of 25% of RAM I was not able to use >> the ubiquity installer on the last alpha of the Ubuntu Live CD in a > > What prevents using real swap?
There won't be any swap partition configured the first time Linux is installed. Even if there was a swap partition, the partition editor needs to umount all partitions, including swap, to allow the kernel to reload the partition table. (It may be possible to work around this if no new partitions are created and/or the swap is on a different physical harddisk). > If the problem is really running out of memory, assigning part of memory for > compcache makes things only worse. It helps only if you really cannot have One could let the physical swap have a higher priority, or only use compcache when no physical swap is present. There is a new feature of Compcache that allows the compressed pages to be swapped out to hard disk. Playing around with these newer features may be productive for 10.04 LTS. This was the bug report where I suggested adding compcache to allow install on 256MB machines. https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/193552 In addition to adding compcache, an option to run ubiquity without a full desktop environment was added. Together these two enhancements can allow installs with only 128MB of RAM. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
