Comment 18 for bug 43706

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
ubuntu@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

ubuntu@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

ubuntu@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.