[Virtualacorn-list] VA and ROOL 5.nn

[Roger Darlington]

On 8 Jan 2014, Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn  wrote:
> Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

>>Because it would be great to have 500MB or 1GB of free RAM. I keep
>>running out of memory with only 131MB after the desktop has started.

> Are you saying that "starting the desktop" uses some colossal amount of RAM?


I thought saying 'with only 131MB free after the desktop has started' 
signifies that I have 131 MB free after the desktop has booted up.

There is 128MB + 48MB configured = 176MB

The desktop obviously uses 176-131 = 45MB (including that needed for 
VRAM)

> Surely nearly all the machine's RAM should be free at that point?  Or, by
> "starting the desktop" do you mean starting up loads of applications?




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Cheers
Roger
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