On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:13:28AM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>
> > > I'm running with 512MB of RAM. I didn't realize that may not be enough.
> > > That's good to know though. I'll need to check it out. I'm running
> > > 1.0.7 as well, and I get the same crashing.
> >
> > 512M should be ample. I can run it successfully on as little as 128M
> > when running the Fluxbox window manager. I've also noticed similar
> > behaviour on a 1G machine that's otherwise dormant.
>
> This is another good point. Things like KDE and GNOME just _suck_
> memory. If you want to trim your usage, try Blackbox, Fluxbox, XFCE,
> etc. Not as pretty, but slimmer.
Run 'vmstat 5' in an xterm or similar, then keep an eye on it
(particularly the 'si' ('swap in') and 'so' ('swap out') columns) while you
do stuff. A long run of double-digit numbers means you don't have enough
RAM for what you're doing.
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