mdz I've run a system with the recommended minimum ram of 384 for live cd. Using mem=384M as recommended by cjwatson.
The system is slow but usable. Fire fox is a killer pre firefox ubu...@ubuntu:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 379840 374980 4860 0 38220 179908 -/+ buffers/cache: 156852 222988 Swap: 3074972 564 3074408 Post firefox ubu...@ubuntu:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 379840 361140 18700 0 14972 169088 -/+ buffers/cache: 177080 202760 Swap: 3074972 92140 2982832 the system nearly died of shock opening OO.o ubu...@ubuntu:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 379840 365420 14420 0 28924 182760 -/+ buffers/cache: 153736 226104 Swap: 3074972 150584 2924388 Matt what would help me is to know how you got you results so I can get a real metric with yours. I will chase this up with you tomorrow though and some fresh tests. -- Excessive memory usage on live CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs