X windows

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

sometimes TCL freezes if i am web browsing or other things....

does TCL use "x windows" and if so, what is the hotkey to re-start "x windows"?

or a hotkey to kill x-windows?

or can you describe any un-freezing method for TCL

thanks

Vince.

[gerald_clark]

Your problem is not sufficiently defined.
Are you running out of memory?
Are you running out of disk space?
Do you have an intermittant network connection?

"Freezes" is not very helpful.
Can you use <CTRL><ALT><F1> to switch to console?
If so, what does "free" show?
What does "df" show?

From X, <CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE> should stop X.
"startx" will restart it.

[vinceASPECT]

ok i am will take a look

i think it could be the browsers....epiphany, minefield and their relationship with flash in several
concurrent tabs or windows  (instantiations)

thanks

vince.

[curaga]

Most often these kinds of freezes are running out of ram. Flash especially tends to download all videos to ram, that in multiple tabs can take several hundreds of megs.

Swap is recommended for heavy use like that.

[vinceASPECT]

hello,

ok thanks for that.

So currently i run TCL inside ram. I install extensions and then i set them as "on demand" later.

My TCE folder is on a pen drive.

Should i put a Linux swap file of 256 megabytes on that same pen drive? Is it just a case of making
the swap partition by using Gparted extension inside TCL?

thanks

Vince.

[Rich]

Hi vinceASPECT
A pen drive is not suitable for a swap file. Excessive writes to it will cause it to wear out prematurely,
not to mention the data transfer rate will not be very high.