Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system
On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:43:31 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
(...)
>> Wow... 216 MB of ram and you have _no swap_? That's suicide...
>
> When I parted the hard disk, I remeber leaving about 1 gigabite swap,
> and in fact here it is from `parted':
>
> # parted
(...)
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
> 1 32.3kB 8390MB 8390MB primary fat32 boot
> 2 8390MB 40.1GB 31.7GB extended lba
> 5 8390MB 9434MB 1045MB logical linux-swap
> 6 9434MB 21.0GB 11.5GB logical ext3
> 7 21.0GB 26.2GB 5239MB logical ext3
> 8 26.2GB 40.1GB 13.8GB logical ext3
>
> I don't know why it does not figure in `free -m', but it is there.
The "/swap" partition has to be mounted. Put here the content of your "/etc/
fstab".
>> What the...!!! >:-O
>>
>> How can you pretend to run your system with as little as 28 MB of
>> available ram? You are likey running out of memory, so either add more
>> ram (this is highly recommended) or use a ligthweight desktop/ window
>> manager with programs that are not as resource and memory hungry as
>> iceweasel is.
>
> Do you think it is possible to work it out using a lighter desktop
> manager?
Sure, many people does it. Or even consider using another linux
distribution prepared to run with these kind of low resource systems.
> But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has
> become heavy only recently, and the machine is always the same.
I can't tell but your system can't be happy with 216 MB of ram and running
applications such as Iceweasel. Sooner or later it has to break.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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