On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:37 +0100, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I know I have posted a lot lately regarding my Linux box, so sorry if this is irritating.
See what happens when you post an "It's all working great" email too early. A word from the wise...never ever ever let a computer know that you are 100% happy with it...they will play about just to spite you. *grin*
Everything is working fine except Dillo keeps quitting and Firefox freezes the whole machine from time to time. As I will basically be using this machine as a wireless web/email machine I need a stable distro.
Complete machine lockup is quite rare on Linux unless there is something very serious wrong (possibly hardware related)...When the machine has locked up from using Firefox is the hard drive light blinking a lot ? It may be that because of your limited RAM Firefox is running into a lot of swap space (which I'd imagine is quite slow on a machine of this spec) or worse you don't have enough swap space, I am thinking that it may not actually be crashed, just very very slow.
Also before you do anything else I would make a Memtest86 boot floppy and let it run for several hours (or at least 5 passes whichever comes first) particularly on hardware this old.
As others have said Firefox on 48MB is a little optimistic, particularly on any "rich" sites...I'd wait until you have that upgrade (and tested the memory) before condemning DSL as you may find that the same apps on a different distro will have the same problem. Just sitting on the BBC site my copy of firefox is using 30MB alone.