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Offline alouestn1

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Core Plus - Ram full
« on: January 05, 2014, 06:00:35 AM »
Hello,
I have a computer with a Pentium 166 Mhz MMX and 80 Mo of Ram.
When the window manager launch, the Ram is full.
Can I disable some extensions to win memory ?

« Last Edit: January 05, 2014, 06:06:03 AM by alouestn1 »

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 06:39:29 AM »
Do you have a swap file?

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2014, 06:54:16 AM »
Juanito How r u hope u will be fine.
Swap file is use as a Ram ?

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« Last Edit: January 05, 2014, 06:59:29 AM by malikawan »

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2014, 06:55:29 AM »
Is this live or installed? You should install to HD, and only what you need, it should perform better than the live cd.
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2014, 07:07:40 AM »

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2014, 07:09:18 AM »
Maybe there is a misunderstanding of Linux RAM use. There is 35.7M cached which is a not a used memory in conventional terms and can be used by apps. Of cource you need more memory including swap.

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2014, 07:14:53 AM »
Maybe there is a misunderstanding of Linux RAM use. There is 35.7M cached which is a not a used memory in conventional terms and can be used by apps. Of cource you need more memory including swap.

Thanx for fast reply Juanito

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2014, 07:54:33 AM »
The Core plus installed on hard disk.

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You should install to HD, and only what you need
How can I choose only what I need to install ?

I have a swap partition. I don't know if it used.
How Can i see if there is a swap file ?



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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2014, 07:58:55 AM »

How Can i see if there is a swap file ?

Use command free in a terminal.
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2014, 02:06:38 PM »
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cat /proc/swaps would show details and help differentiating between zram, swapfile, swap partition.
And please prefer posting text, rather than screenshots of terminal.
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2014, 03:43:25 PM »
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tc@box:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/zram0                              partition 14492 0 -1
/dev/sda2                               partition 297196 0 -2
« Last Edit: January 05, 2014, 03:46:51 PM by alouestn1 »

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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2014, 03:50:52 PM »
Not same as what showed in earlier screenshot, but this should be more than sufficient for 80MB of RAM.
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2014, 03:54:29 PM »
Also, looking at your screenshot, it is not at all clear what your issue is, as swap usage is 0.
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Re: Core Plus - Ram full
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2014, 04:16:12 PM »
The screenshot with "top" command was with the Wifi support.
I reinstalled meanwhile without Wifi support
The screenshot with "cat /proc/swaps" command is now without Wifi support.
I have 15236k free Mem.

When I try to launch Epiphany web browser, it exit with this errors : (the GUI not start).
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touch: /usr/local/tce.installed/gnome-icon-theme: No space left on device
mkdir: can't create directory '/tmp/tcloop/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic': No space left on device
mount: can't setup loop device: No space left on device

Before I launch Epiphany I have 14108K free Mem.
After I launch Epiphany I have 3464K free Mem.

How can I copy the text in from shell to the editor ? What are the shortcuts keys ?
« Last Edit: January 06, 2014, 03:33:43 PM by alouestn1 »