On 09/04/2017 12:42 PM, Ian Prideaux wrote: > On 03/09/17 09:08, John R. Sowden wrote: >> I believe that I am running 2GB ram > > free -m > > to show us your memory (in MB). > > Run top, and type M, it will order by memory usage. > > On my old computer, I was running xubuntu 15.04 with 2 GB ram and seeing an obvious slow-down with FireFox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice open along with Dropbox and Insync.
Specifically, I was hitting swap memory pretty hard and experiencing a noticeable lag on some apps after not using them in some time. A great panel addition to use is xfce4-systemload-plugin to monitor what is happening to your memory situation. My takeaway is that xubuntu now probably needs 3 GB of ram. Good luck, Victor -- Victor Forberger vforber...@fastmail.fm blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com
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