Y'all probably know I recently put Ubuntu 12.04 on my aging Dell recently. Happy over all, but there are a few small issues.
I am limited by the hardware to 1G RAM. The System monitor shows I am using roughly 80% (799M) when I start up and open my normal Chromium browser list of about 7 tabs, and little else. My normal use is to leave this going for a while - and over time, I note my memory use goes slowly up to nearly all available, and the system usually then panics and reboots. I did a little research on memory use under Ubuntu and mostly find older posts. I am not sure if there is anything I can tune to reduce overall memory use, but if anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear. Watching the resource list, chromium is consistently a large consumer so maybe I just have to reduce expectations until I am finally able to get a system I can put some real memory into. One basic question though - how do I edit the command line call for the icon within the Unity tab-bar? I can edit an icon on the workspace, but can't see how to get to it on the bar. I want to set the --purge-memory-button flag. JC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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