Hmmm.... memory, that is a very real possibility. And it does seem like the best explanation for the strange behavior.
Executing "free" in a terminal gives me something like this:
| total | used | free | shared | buffers |
Mem: | 503516 | 417672 | 85844 | 0 | 81668 |
-/+ buffers: | | 336292 | 167224 |
Swap: | 125872 | 125796 | 76 |
The hard drive has about 9 GB free out of ~38GB and Windows XP is installed on it. At this point I want to keep XP in a "working" state.
Creating a swap partition about 1 GB in size should be fairly safe, correct?
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This guide should do the trick, I think)
As an alternative, creating a swap file with "swapfile" should be fine correct?
Of course this machine has space for more RAM, and since RAM is relatively cheap, buying some more RAM would certainly be the best option (performance wise).
Thanks,
Nomer