+1 On 2013-06-09 09:08, leszek.les...@web.de wrote: > Ok a simple suggestion from me. Why don't we decidebto enable zram (with > zram-config) for the alpha version and see how itnworks out for the testers. > We can disable this afterwards if the test fails. > But I highly doubt that you will see any downside in using zram. > And btw. as I don't think it os clear to everyone zram enabled means a > virtual swap partition gets mounted into the system. The location of this > swap partition is however instead of the traditional one a virtual compressed > ram drive. I hope that this is understandable. > Please +1 if you also want zram enabled by default in the alpha images. > > -- > Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetNio Wiklund schrieb am 09.06.13 04:11: > On 2013-06-08 20:05, Aere Greenway wrote: >> On 06/08/2013 10:57 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Karl Anliot <kanl...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:kanl...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I honestly think zram could help during the one-time graphical >>> installation of Lubuntu on 512MB pcs. In fact, edubuntu included >>> zram in that distribution for that exact reason. We could >>> eliminate crashing and the need to delete the slideshow to install. >>> >>> >>> >>> For the last two years testing Lubuntu on old hardware (256MB-512MB of >>> RAM), that maybe 1000 installations or more, I have never ever faced >>> the so called slideshow crashing issue :) >>> >>> Please, let's keep the topic as it is :) >>> >>> -- >>> *Best Regards,* >>> *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* >>> *Start Ubuntu >>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu>* >>> >>> /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with >>> 489MB RAM/ >>> >>> >>> >> On multiple installations, I have encountered the problem on 512 Meg RAM >> machines where it crashes at a certain point during the slide-show. >> >> In each case, using the package manager to remove the ubiquity slide >> show has allowed the graphical installation to go beyond that point, and >> succeed. >> >> -- >> Sincerely, >> Aere >> >> >> > I have found that a swap partition can help installing when there is low > RAM. If there is already swap on the internal drive, it will be grabbed > by the live system (and it's installer will benefit from it). I have > even made a version of the Lubuntu-fake-PAE with swap on the USB drive > for the same reason, 'grub-n-iso-n-swap'. > > I guess zRAM can have the same effect, to allow more data to be managed > by the memory system with a given amount of RAM hardware. >
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