Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread David Christensen
On 4/4/25 22:01, William Torrez Corea wrote: I have enabled swap memory, but if i disable the swap memory the machine is slow. I tried running computers without swap and found that they crashed when the running programs used too much memory. Now I allocate 1 GB swap on the system drive duri

Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
William Torrez Corea composed on 2025-04-04 23:01 (UTC-0600): > I have two memory RAM SO-DIMM in my two slot > The two memory have the following characteristics: >- 12800MHz >- 4GB >- DDR3L > But the BIOS only reflects 1600MHz, why? What happened to the rest? 12800 is MB/s bandwidt

Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian)

2023-03-20 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 21/3/23 10:20, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On a tangent, I've just set up a Debian 11 Linode LEMP server with 1GB RAM and 10GB Disk. It's not in the least troubled by the limited memory. Also there is no swap in the default image - which seem sensible as it's on a SSD and you don't want to be e

Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian)

2023-03-20 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 21/3/23 10:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: So, maybe there's a "good" reason why Apple still configures their cheapest laptop with only 8GB of RAM: for "normal" work it's still perfectly sufficient, despite all the best efforts of web site designers out there. [ But I would recommend against buyi

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:49:15 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > As I mentioned (briefly) in my original post, yes, I experience concrete > > problems: the system either grinds to a halt or becomes unresponsive, > > or hits swap and becomes intolerably slow. > > Sorry I missed that part. > I think t

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread piorunz
On 12/02/2022 12:43, Curt wrote: On 2022-02-12, piorunz wrote: On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't leave it running for extended periods of time. Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? See my o

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, February 13, 2022 02:58:46 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) > > creates (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content". I don't know > > how Fire

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates > (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content".  I don't know how Firefox > decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs)

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Feb 2022 at 20:04:35 (+0100), Linux-Fan wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > > I used to have 8 GB on the system, and it would start to thrash at > > > about 7+ GB usage. I recently ugrade to 16 GB; memory usage is > > > currently over 8 GB, and it seems to be slowly but steadily increa

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:05:27AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 13, 2022 01:29:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I'm sure they are not one from each tab -- I often have 100 tabs open (in > Jessi

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 08:03:39, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 07:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resou

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:05:27AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [Firefox Web Content processes] > > Those are, basically, one for each tab, yes. > > I'm sure they are not one from each tab -- I often have 100 tabs open (in > Jessie's Firfox, upto 3000 in Wheezy's Firefox), and typically se

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, February 13, 2022 01:29:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) > > creates (typically mutlitple) files > > ...you mean "processes", not fi

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 07:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources > > > > > > Firefox may use more system reso

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources > > > > Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods > > of time [...] > what this

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates > (typically mutlitple) files ...you mean "processes", not files, right? > named "Web Content". I don't know ho

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. You can configure Firefox to save your

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe things would work better with more swap, but I haven/t (and probably won't try that) -- in the reasonably near future (maybe after tax season), I plan to set up a new system with Debian 1 (whatever that is "code named"). increasing swap here

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 05:11:31 AM Curt wrote: > Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods > of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. You > can configure Firefox to save your tabs and windows so that when you > start it again, you

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-12, piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >> Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't >> leave it running for extended periods of time. > > Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? > See my other post in this thread.

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-11, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote: >> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the >> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing. >> >> This is a more or less normal (I think) des

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 06:22:48PM +, piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 17:58, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > > It seems to be the fashion nowadays to leave one's web browser up 24/7, > > with dozens of tabs open.  Personally I can't understand this - I seldom > > have more than two or three tabs open

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread piorunz
On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't leave it running for extended periods of time. Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal opera

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote: > I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the > memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing. > > This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid, > running Xfce4. Typical

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:00:39 -0500 Celejar wrote: > There are several reasons I'm not ready to do that: Fine, get another browser. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:57:58 -0500 Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On 2022-02-11 14:52, Celejar wrote: > > As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not > > sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back > > about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-11 14:52, Celejar wrote: As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.8, and Xorg's usage hasn't changed: ~ 4436M / 3081M / 105M. Closing Fi

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread piorunz
On 11/02/2022 18:40, Charles Curley wrote: My solution is simple: I switched to Vivaldi over a year ago, and haven't looked back. https://vivaldi.com. They have packages for Debian, and run a roughly two week release cycle. It's based on Chromium, but with better privacy settings for the default

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:40:15 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:01:59 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does > > everyone have this problem? > > It is widely rumored, backed by experiments I've done here. I've not > see

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:58:40 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Fri Feb 11 09:43:03 2022 Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:17 -0700 > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500 > >> Celejar wrote: > >> > >>> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:06:52 + piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 17:01, Celejar wrote: > > So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does > > everyone have this problem? I actually did used to kill firefox when I > > was experiencing memory pressure - it certainly relieved th

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:43:55 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I used to have 8 GB on the system, and it would start to thrash at > > about 7+ GB usage. I recently ugrade to 16 GB; memory usage is > > currently over 8 GB, and it seems to be slowly but steadily increasing. > > Presumably you bought

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Linux-Fan
Stefan Monnier writes: > I used to have 8 GB on the system, and it would start to thrash at > about 7+ GB usage. I recently ugrade to 16 GB; memory usage is > currently over 8 GB, and it seems to be slowly but steadily increasing. Presumably you bought 16GB to make use of it, right? So it's onl

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:01:59 -0500 Celejar wrote: > So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does > everyone have this problem? It is widely rumored, backed by experiments I've done here. I've not seen anything official from the Mozilla folks, but then I don't pay close atte

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread piorunz
On 11/02/2022 17:58, Charlie Gibbs wrote: It seems to be the fashion nowadays to leave one's web browser up 24/7, with dozens of tabs open.  Personally I can't understand this - I seldom have more than two or three tabs open at once, and most of the time I have only one open, which is why I trea

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Fri Feb 11 09:43:03 2022 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:17 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500 >> Celejar wrote: >> >>> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - >>> the memory usage seems to slowly but more or less stea

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread piorunz
On 11/02/2022 17:01, Celejar wrote: So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does everyone have this problem? I actually did used to kill firefox when I was experiencing memory pressure - it certainly relieved the immediate problem, but I think I found that not all the memory

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:17 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the > > memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep > > increasing. > > > > This is a more or

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500 Celejar wrote: > I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the > memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep > increasing. > > This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid, > running Xfce4. Typical

Re: Memory and other hardware safety issue regarding ZFS [was Disk for a small server]

2021-08-11 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-11 5:53 a.m., David Christensen wrote: > On 8/10/21 7:51 PM, Celejar wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:35:32 -0700 >> David Christensen wrote: >> >>> On 8/10/21 12:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: > On 8/10/21 8:04 AM, Leandro Noferini wrote: > > ht

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:34:30PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > I use a 32bit OS Is the hardware capable of 64-bit? If so then it should be possible to install an amd64 kernel and e2fsprogs without completely converting your system to amd64. https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading (Stop afte

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread IL Ka
> I use a 32bit OS > > 32-bit OS can't use more than 4GB. 32-bit app can use even lower amount of memory. This is why 50GB swap file didn't help.

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reiner Buehl wrote. > I would like to fix the filesystem > so that I can then use more intelligent recovery methods that do not need to > copy every file. Maybe the old workaround proposed by Ted T'so in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614082 would be worth a try. Bug rep

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread Reiner Buehl
/ and /home are fine on the system. The data on the affected filesystem is a collection of data from different remote sites, so it could be restored but that would take a lot of time. That's why I would like to fix the filesystem so that I can then use more intelligent recovery methods that do not

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 02:21:05PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 7/5/21 1:54 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly l

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 7/5/21 1:54 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly large and there's no value in breaking things into multiple parti

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly large and there's no value in breaking things into multiple partitions for no reason.

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Reiner Buehl [2021-07-05 10:21:13] wrote: > Hi all, > I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the error > message: > > Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, > num=406081): Memory allocation failed [...] > The system has 4GB of memory and a 8GB swap

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Marc Auslander
On 7/5/2021 4:30 AM, Reiner Buehl wrote: Hi all, I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the error message: Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, num=406081): Memory allocation failed /dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread IL Ka
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 5:17 PM Reiner Buehl wrote: > It seems swap is not the solution: Even after adding a 50G swap file, I > still get the same error message and the swap usage stats from collectd > show that max swap usage was not more than just 2G. > > btw, do you use 32 or 64bit os?

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Reiner Buehl
It seems swap is not the solution: Even after adding a 50G swap file, I still get the same error message and the swap usage stats from collectd show that max swap usage was not more than just 2G. I will now try if the scratch_files stanza makes a difference. Am Mo., 5. Juli 2021 um 11:50 Uhr schr

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reiner Buehl wrote: > Is there a quick way to enlarge the swap space According to old memories of mine you may create a large, non-sparse file as you would do for a virtual disk. E.g. by mkfile (which seems not to be in Debian) or qemu-img (from qemu-utils): qemu-img create "$swap_file_pat

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread IL Ka
> Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, > num=406081): Memory allocation failed > Try ``scratch_files`` https://manpages.debian.org/buster/e2fsprogs/e2fsck.conf.5.en.html This stanza controls when e2fsck will attempt to use scratch files to reduce the need for memory

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:48:38PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > > Here we see about 2Gb of memory cons

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > Here we see about 2Gb of memory consumed: > > MemFree:32124660 kB / MemFree:30144704 kB > > Such discrepan

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:06:01PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > > of proper t

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > of proper tools. I have saved the output of slabtop and /proc/meminfo for: aboot: Directly afte

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:12:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't > like? I avoided possible problems until now, as every time I expected to need a lot of memory and the "used memory" was larger than expected I rebooted beforehand. Also

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12020-03-28): > Is this causing a problem for you? Not understanding something is a problem by itself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Dan Ritter
n...@dismail.de wrote: > after upgrading my hardware I started to notice what seemed like memory > leaks. Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't like? > 650MiB(with MATE) of RAM are being used and after extended use, when closing > all > gui-programs except a termina

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:56:37PM +0100, n...@dismail.de wrote: > But now I would often end up with something between +600MiB and +2.5GiB. > When looking at top or htop no process using nearly that much memory is > listed. /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of s

Re: memory fault after "cd xxx"

2019-07-12 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Hmmm. How about checking your RAM , a memtest. thanks for your answer, but meanwhile, I upgraded fron Stretch to Buster, and the problem disappeared... I don't know whether the fix comes from the upgrade, or just the reboot... best regards, -- Pi

Re: memory fault after "cd xxx"

2019-07-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:11 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I get a "memory fault" after doing "cd" to a given directory. Here is > the command sequencet: > > PFR2 /d11a/pfr2-bak/lib->>cd i386-linux-gnu/ > Memory fault > -ksh: line 408: 7567: Memory fault > Memory fault >

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-03-20 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, March 20, 2017 01:52:16 PM Curt wrote: > On 2017-03-20, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > >>* 1 GB HDD ~$50 > > > > You're being ripped off for that size HDD! > > I think some zeros got lost in that gauzy electronic region between > the sender and the sendee. > > Or maybe a T.

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-03-20 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, March 20, 2017 01:19:54 PM cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:38:19PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >* 8 MB RAM $40 to $50 > >* 1 GB HDD ~$50 > > You're being ripped off for that size HDD! Prices change--I haven't bought an HDD or any RAM in

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-03-20 Thread Curt
On 2017-03-20, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >>* 1 GB HDD ~$50 > > You're being ripped off for that size HDD! > I think some zeros got lost in that gauzy electronic region between the sender and the sendee. Or maybe a T. -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fa

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-03-20 Thread cbannister
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:38:19PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 04:08:09 PM Doug wrote: > > Whether or not this is all economically worth while, or you should throw > > the machine out and buy a new one is up to you. > > I typically build replacement computers

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-20 Thread Martin McCormick
I want to thank those who suggested getting the service manual from Dell. I've got it and it is really going to be helpful as the disassembly process is a lot like I expected but not quite so it should save a lot of headaches later on and the likelihood of damage is much less. I ex

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Doug writes: > As you watch the youtube, please note that he DID NOT USE ANY ARCTIC > SILVER > when he installed the CPU! > > I doubt that he'll have much life with that laptop! > > --doug Jimmy Johnson writes: > Here's a 2650 replacement, maybe it will help. https://www.youtube.com/ > watch?v

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-19 Thread Doug
On 01/19/2017 11:54 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 01/18/2017 09:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Hi Martin, How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/18/2017 09:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Hi Martin, How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-19 Thread Martin McCormick
David Christensen writes: > On 01/18/17 22:02, Doug wrote: > The Service Manual can be downloaded from the support page I posted > previously: > > http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/ > inspiron-2600/manuals Thank you! I will certainly do that. Also, remembe

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 19 January 2017 06:02:08 Doug wrote: > On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson writes: > >> Hi Martin, > >> > >> How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? > > > > I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can > > only h

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/18/17 22:02, Doug wrote: On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the little door in the bottom ne

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: Hi Martin, How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Jimmy Johnson writes: > Hi Martin, > > How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the littl

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification)

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/18/17 13:23, Doug wrote: Note that the following applies to a Dell E1505, as I said in a previous post. I do not know how it fits with the computer under discussion here. --doug The CPU upgrade I installed was not something from the Dell website. You can replace the CPU with a T7600, and

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/18/2017 08:28 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Felix Miata writes: Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and elsewhere. Thanks to you and all others who responded. has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB m

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 04:08:09 PM Doug wrote: > Whether or not this is all economically worth while, or you should throw > the machine out and buy a new one is up to you. I typically build replacement computers (for myself, son, and a few others) for $200 to $300 (or less) (without Windo

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification)

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/18/2017 04:08 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/18/2017 03:04 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on th

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Doug
On 01/18/2017 03:04 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced with a 512 MB

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread David Christensen
On 01/17/17 19:00, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced with a 512 MB card and that pretty much does it. There is another

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on > dell.com and elsewhere. Thanks to you and all others who responded. > > > > has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB > memory card under the little door on the

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/18/2017 12:32 AM, Doug wrote: On 01/17/2017 10:38 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-17 21:00 (UTC-0600): I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and el

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-17 Thread Doug
On 01/17/2017 10:38 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-17 21:00 (UTC-0600): I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and elsewhere. The older Dell I wrote ab

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-17 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2017-01-17 21:00 (UTC-0600): I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only Are you sure? I searched for "inspiron 2600 RAM" and found lots of hits on dell.com and elsewhere. has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory ca

Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

2017-01-17 Thread Doug
On 01/17/2017 10:00 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced with a 512 MB card and that pretty much does it. There is a

Re: Memory usage in Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-07 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/07/2015 09:52 PM, real bas wrote: Sorry, is the System Monitor (app default in Debian Jessie), monitoring CPU, memory and network history. Besides monitor the processes Please don't top post. System Monitor is showing total mem usage, applications and everything. Did you upgrade to Jess

Re: Memory usage in Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-07 Thread real bas
Sorry, is the System Monitor (app default in Debian Jessie), monitoring CPU, memory and network history. Besides monitor the processes 2015-05-07 21:22 GMT-04:00 Michael Biebl : > Am 08.05.2015 um 02:53 schrieb real bas: > > I use the monitoring system. > > What monitoring system? > > > I talk wi

Re: Memory usage in Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.05.2015 um 02:53 schrieb real bas: > I use the monitoring system. What monitoring system? > I talk with other users and have the same problem. Gnome is too heavy even > for Classic This blanket statement makes no sense. That aside, I regularly run GNOME/jessie in a Virtualbox VM with 512M

Re: Memory usage in Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-07 Thread real bas
I use the monitoring system. I talk with other users and have the same problem. Gnome is too heavy even for Classic 2015-05-07 20:14 GMT-04:00 Michael Biebl : > Am 08.05.2015 um 01:45 schrieb real bas: > > Hi guys, > > It's early to talk about but the memory usage it's too much (3.5 GB RAM) > > w

Re: Memory usage in Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.05.2015 um 01:45 schrieb real bas: > Hi guys, > It's early to talk about but the memory usage it's too much (3.5 GB RAM) > with Debian Jessie. I using ISO (cd-1) of debian.org and have this problem. > > The normal usage with Debian Wheezy (7.8.0) is 800~900mb How did you measure memory usag

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/03/2012 01:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 02 dec 12, 23:23:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, I had intended to get 1600 MHz memory as a replacement, but I accidentally got the 1333. If I add additional memory I realize that I will have to used 1333 for that, as well, unless I replace all

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 23:23:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yes, I had intended to get 1600 MHz memory as a replacement, but I > accidentally got the 1333. If I add additional memory I realize > that I will have to used 1333 for that, as well, unless I replace > all of it. What I meant was that maybe the

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/3/2012 1:23 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yes, I had intended to get 1600 MHz memory as a replacement, but I > accidentally got the 1333. If I add additional memory I realize that I > will have to used 1333 for that, as well, unless I replace all of it. Unless you have an integrated GPU that

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/02/2012 01:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 22:19:45, Marc Shapiro wrote: No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave errors, I returned them and got another kit which proceeded to do the same thing. This time, with another brand, everything seems to b

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 22:19:45, Marc Shapiro wrote: > No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave > errors, I returned them and got another kit which proceeded to do > the same thing. This time, with another brand, everything seems to > be working correctly. It's also other fre

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 06:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm calling this case settled... Good to hear it's all working now. Curious, the pair of Patriot sticks with the problem: did that package show signs of being opened before you bought it? Unscrupulous peo

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'm calling this case settled. I went back to Fry's today and returned > the second kit of Patriot Memory. I got a store creidit and went back > to pick out new memory. Fry's does not carry Micron memory, and only > occasionally has Crucial. They wer

(SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 01:11 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS

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