On 01/21/2017 01:39 PM, Joanna Hoyt wrote: > Thanks all for your advice. > > I ran swapon -s and got the following message: > > Filename /dev/sda5 Type partition Size 2079470 Used 0 Priority -1 > > Does that suggest that the swap space is adequate?
I'm not qualified to judge, but the rule of thumb I was given back in the days when you had to establish all the partitions manually, was to set swap to be twice the amount of installed memory. > I'm confused about the RAM issue. Askubuntu.com says that Xubuntu > requires 512 MB RAM... but you're saying it actually requires eight > times that much RAM in order to run bug-free? Nothing to do with bugs (bugs are programming faults, which are going to be there no matter how much or how little memory you have). Linux will technically *run* in 512MB but IMHE it will absolutely *crawl*, taking many minutes to respond to the mouse or keyboard. I'm on a 2GB laptop at the moment, and it's working OK, but occasionally slows down when switching from application to application. And it takes 7-8 mins to boot. I wouldn't want to run more than 3-4 user applications (eg mail, web, wordprocessor, spreadsheet) simultaneously unless you have more than 2GB memory. But there are *lots* of other factors involved. There are things you can do to lessen the demands on memory -- one is to run Xubuntu so that you use xfce as your interface instead of Unity (Unity sucks all your memory into a black hole). Use lighter software: eg Claws-Mail instead of Thunderbird. Use AbiWord instead of LibreOffice. Use command-line utilities instead of graphical ones. Unfortunately on the web browser front, they all seem to be memory-hogs. ///Peter -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
