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piratePenguin:
I got a very very strange error compiling Firefox today. When linking libgklayout.so, the rendering engine (gecko) (must be the most resource intensive part of the build), the linker was just killed!

I thought it was a bug in the toolchain (I'm using old versions at this stage). I googled for the error message and it's an error other people were getting when they had no memory left. And whataya know, dmesg had some OOM (out of memory) messages for me to read.

I've 256mb ram and 2gb swap, what the hell?

Turns out, my swap wasn't enabled. There's an init script to turn it on (with 'swapon -a'), an init script I must've accidentally removed when I was last messing about with the config - April 15th.

So I was running for well over a month on a 256mb ram machine without any swap, and I didn't even notice lol. Using GNOME and Firefox basically every single day - Firefox many times with tens of tabs open, and some other random things, and Linux dev's were too smart for me to notice.

PS: FF 2.0 is looking fine.

WMD:

--- Quote from: corvette ---i can brigde two cards together but there is no need to yet so i am fine with what i have i installed wine on my laptop and it works just fine i play civ 4 and starcraft on that and there is no problem i will stay with windows until there is a good linux for gaming which i hope will come soon and i am running kopix i think its called on my other cpu and i am planning to start programmer on that since it is open source i am planning to make a brower and a cpu management program i hope to get started soon i should be done in a couple of months and i will piost it on here
thanks

corvette
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Using.  All.  Periods.  To.  Balance.  Out.  The.  Quote. :D

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: corvette ---i am planning to make a brower and a cpu management program
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A web-browser? Why?

solemnwarning:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---With nothing running?

Shit my machine only uses 70MB when I'm running XP. :eek:
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With most of the stuff I use running: konsole, xchat, gkrellm, scite, ect

GenuineAdvantage:
On this lap with only 256 memory in the first place, there is still room for the memory, about 75MB left. And the swap memory is all but empty, In windows it tends to be used a lot first. Running xterm, gkrellm, audacious, firestarter, gdesklets with 3 desklets, firefox with quite a few tabs open, and a few other things. And even if it get too full, I could just close something and the memory is freed right away. In windows it seems to linger and rely on the swap too much. When I had win Xp on here, I had to tweak everything as far as the services, ending all the useless ones. Used no theme, the flat classic one, and close everything I don't need right away if it's something fairly large. Otherwise it tended to get bogged down. On it was a little better with the default of gnome, but then I just installed xfce and it was fine. Stuff gets done faster than what was on a 2.4GHZ intel with 2 GB of memory and a $500 video card with a standard 7200 hard disk with 8MB buffer running windows xp - with viruses and junk. Compare that to this with old as hell 900 processor and 2MB buffer hard disk if any. Like I said, runs faster than that other one did.

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