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Topic: The Shuttle i3 experience.
I just spent 3 days trying to find something reasonable to run on a Shuttle PC with an i3 and no HDD and minus one cooling fan.
Req 1: Has to run live, has to have a persistent state, and for Linus’ sake, it should run comfortably in 1G.
Linux Mint – Failed. Hit the swap file so much after 2 hours of use that the system hard locks. (Hey, I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen in linux)
LXDE – Same issue as above.And I could run the list of distros I went through, but just google the top ten lightweight linux distros, and that’s how I wound up here.
I’m installed and running with the Live USB, then using the tools to make an UBER USB. It’s freaking awesome.
I’m still poking around and installing things, and get a hard drive next week. If things continue like this, I think you got a winner.
techcodie
antiX live/unlive startup order/priorities question.
Intermittent odd startups. ( I don’t understand, but wanting to share what I do see.)
Across 3 antiX platforms, I notice odd wm? loading. antiX starts, eventually, WM starts to load a “desktop”. At random, certain things fail to load.
30% or less, the desktop background fails to load.
Can’t put a percentage, but often, WM seems to have failed to fully load. Fluxbox makes the best examples though. FB menu feels 85+% inop. Most menu options click to nothing. %50% of the time in click to no response mode, FB starts making ghost menus: Any left or right click just opens a new FB menu, and you can cover the screen with them.Regardless of unloaded things or WM glitches, (sorry, not on antiX right now:), “other desktops” or “new” or whatever label, works 90%+ of the time. Swapping to new desktop evokes Slim. Login, then any desktop (GRUB entry) aside from what I was on, will work flawlessly after credential login. (New desktop from FB/Rox to FB/Rox will result in any of similar startup glitches, swapping to FB/SpaceFM will resolve any startup glitch the same as picking any other WM.)
Found startup options under antiX control center. Chart with 5 collums of [X]’s to arrange priority/options I assume. Do not understand yet, not messing with those settings.
I am un-used-to Slim for a DM. No easy GUI to find slim settings, and not sure where to directory dig for it, nor know not what I can/can’t edit if I do find it. Swapping desktops always forces a new login to Slim, after that, any desktop change, not staying original load, solves problem.
I have no idea where the problem lies. These are just the workarounds I have attempted. Unsure if initial WM load lacks sudo privilege because it was loaded without a Slim login, hence the works after “swapping desktop” just because Slim is re-allowed to log you in as a different user?(sudo privlage or not, maybe different startup control?) I wanted to personally test this, but I don’t know Slim, and no gui, I don’t know how to force Slim “no auto-logins, mandatory pass)
I also wonder if simpler/deeper. I don’t fully get it, but I like to reverse engineer. The && sleep timer && I see in most linux startup codes, I feel I vaguely understand. I am curious if there is maybe a few minor adjustments to startup wait/delay to ensure service loading priority? I understand the basic concept, but the details above my head.
I’m not sure. If there is a way to capture startup log files, I’d be more than happy to do so from a few hardware, and multiple different installs. Please let me know where to find a log file that might catch these behaviors.
Entirely possible also that 2GB RAM on a netbook loading off 2.0 USB, is just losing things in RAM or crashing in RAM. Though, works a decent amount of the time without failures too.
Thanks for listening. I like puzzles. Let me know how I can help you solve this. I love testing and breaking Linux, I just have let to learn the society of bug-reports.
Howdy Jessie.
Hi
I made a swapfile and it works. But when booting, I get a warning:
“warn Aktivate swapfile failed”
The swapfile still works. Where is the problem?
Here are the commands I used:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfileThen put this line in fstab:
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0- This topic was modified 2 years ago by banned.
Hi
Because I know that surfing with little RAM is a problem, I would like to tell you about my new experience with Opera:
I have 1GB of RAM and was looking for the right browser. Firefox wasn’t that bad, but from 2 fb tabs, a google translate and another page it reaches the limit where the swapfile starts to work. I see this well on the “Conky”, a wonderful tool 🙂 With Chromium and Chrome, it is a little worse than with firefox. Brave was about the same as firefox, but the built-in addblocker didn’t convince me at all!
Just out of curiosity and more of a coincidence, I tested Opera and there was a big surprise! Opera runs significantly faster than the up-to-date browsers mentioned above. Opera also has an addblocker built in and it works fine. In addition, Opera has many setting options that I have not found in the other browsers. Obviously Opera manages the memory better than the others! I observe that my RAM usage is never higher than 700MB (out of a total of 927MB available). If I am already close to 700MB and open another tab, the load even sinks and then slowly increases again to around 700MB, but never goes above it. I conclude from this that Opera has a limit on RAM usage and then uses the browser cache. Because the swapfile is NOT beeing activated, should mean it doesn’t swap! Sentational, really 🙂
I had also tested Falkon on my old notebook, also with 1GB Ram. It also ran better than Chromium and Firefox. The version that I installed under Lubuntu still had a static browser cache (not a dynamic one), which has the advantage that it can be increased manually. The maximum was 2GB.
But I recommend installing Opera to anyone who has not tried it yet. You can find it in “Package Installer”. At most, the list needs to be updated beforehand via the terminal. See separate post here:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/can-i-install-opera-browser/
