On 2013-06-16 20:13, Yorvyk wrote: > As I'd just downloaded the latest daily so I could have a clean install > for writing the Lubuntu Manual, I thought I'd have a go installing on a > really on a low RAM machine to see if it made any difference. It appears > to. > > Compaq Deskpro EP K450 from last century. > > Intel 440BX chip set > 450 MHz Pentium III > 256 MiB PC100 RAM > 6.4 GB HDD (from Oct 1998) > MGA G200 AGP graphics > > The HDD had a single FAT 32 partition on it. I booted from USB using > PLOP and selected Try Lubuntu and then ran top. zRAM used 128 MiB RAM > and already swap was in use, only 4 MiB. I then launched the installer > from the desktop and the swap usage then started to creep up. I used the > default settings for the install and set it going. Once the swap on the > HHD was formated it came into use, adding an additional 360 MiB of > space. An hour and a quarter later it finished. I was making a meal > while it carried out the install, but kept popping through to see how it > was going. The largest swap usage I saw was around 220 MiB and the load > average was around 3.5-4. As the CPU heat sink uses convection cooling > it did start to get rather warm, but not too hot to touch. > > Having attempted to use a Live CD on this machine previously to install > and failing, even with the direct install, I was quite impressed. I > didn't realise the swap on the HHD would be mounted and used during the > installation.
This was new to me too. > > > So zRAM made the difference from 'no go' to 'go' :-) I guess a previously created and activated swap partition on the HDD would have a similar effect, but slower, particularly in the beginning before the zRAM was filled. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
