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Originally Posted by kacir
Then something is wrong.
I just took a few memory modules from my old rig and the behaviour you describe is consistent with 512MB of memory.
With 1GB the system is *much* snappier.
This is Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, .5, 1, 2GB RAM (I actually tested all those configurations). I have Mint Linux Maya installed here - the main version with Gnome.
I started Firefox - that I use at this moment, with a few tabs, one of them Google Maps, - and I started Calibre with huge texts, books and documents database.
I suggest you run:
sudo lshw -html > ~/lshw.html
and then inspect the lshw.html document in your home directory using a browser. Do check how much memory your system can see.
You might have to install lshw first:
apt get install lshw
It happened to me in the past that a stick of memory became loose in my computer and the system couldn't see it. This is how I found out that you *can* use Firefox and Calibre in a reasonable manner even with 1GB ;-)
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Nope, it's got 1 Gig. And only one memory slot.