On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2012/6/14 John Thornton <bjt...@gmail.com>: > > I don't know if that is the ultimate solution but it does work and so > > does popping out one memory chip from the 525. > > John, can You explain, why do You use so much of RAM? > I put 2 GB in my machines only because I do not have swap partition on > SSDs. > AFAIK LinuxCNC is happy with 1 GB, so I have another GB just in case. > I had Lucid on my parent's PC with 512 MB RAM. It used to freeze up > from time to time. Took me a while to realize to look at the usage of > RAM and then I realized that I forgot to create swap partition during > install (that pc has traditional hdd). > > -- > Viesturs > > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > RAM is cheap, and you really can't have too much memory. Well, except in odd ball cases like John's where Ubuntu does funky things. I'd rather have too much than not enough memory. You can also use RAM as a fast file system, though it's volatile so I wouldn't want to try and save anything there. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
