Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, >>> the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug >>> the machine. Can anybody suggest how I can detect why this happen and >>> provide a remedy? > > > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The "/swap" partition has to be mounted. Put here the content of your "/etc/ >> fstab". > > Effectively, swap is not in fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > # /dev/hda8 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > UUID=fac20d2a-a9b7-4a63-973e-ff78f9bf0bc2 / ext3 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 > UUID=bdc14217-c199-40fc-ae6b-47657e54cee3 none swap sw > 0 0 > # /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/cdrw /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > UUID=44F1-9096 /mnt/pendrive1 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 > UUID=44F1-7D0C /mnt/pendrive2 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 > UUID=48A3-3446 /mnt/pendrive-carolina vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 > #/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > image.iso /mnt/iso iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0,user,noauto 0 > 0 > > Maybe the main cause of the problem is the swap partition not mounted? > > >>>> 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.
Is it possible that ram has decreased? Now I noticed that the problem also occurs running `scanimage'. I don't remember it ever occurred in the past! Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txyx1oog....@gmail.com