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| tomreyn | 23.04 is still EOL, though ;-) | 19:57 |
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| Scarlett | Hey, I'm running a older computer with 2gbs of ram, running most things on Lubuntu is fine but when playing videos on youtube, watching streams on twitch, or watching things on news sites resolves in a crash. Usually when the video is buffering/loading between chucks of videos. The video then never resumes and the speakers make a buzz noise at the current volume of the system. It is only resolved when the firefox tab is closed. anyone | 22:44 |
| Scarlett | know how to fix this, am using 24.10, thnx | 22:44 |
| genii | The most likely suspect is that the speed of hard drive combined with swap size is not capable of keeping up with the buffering of video files | 22:56 |
| Scarlett | mostly likely yeah, i have a 15gb drive. with 1gb reseaved for the bios and boot, 500mb for the bios and boot, and 500mb for updates and such. with the OS files out of the way thats probally not much for the drive to work with along with the 2gbs of ram | 22:59 |
| Scarlett | my best guess | 22:59 |
| genii | If you're currently using a disk with platters, recommend installing an SSD instead. | 22:59 |
| Scarlett | its a SSD-ish, its just a mounted SD card thats build into the board | 23:00 |
| Scarlett | 16gb SD, 15gb for OS | 23:00 |
| genii | Ouch, that's somewhat even more problemmatic, SD cards are not designed to take the abuse which a swapfile or partition requires | 23:02 |
| Scarlett | older chromebooks which is what im using, one from 2016 were before SSDs were widely used in chromebooks | 23:02 |
| Scarlett | everything is fast and snappy | 23:03 |
| Scarlett | but I just can't play videos | 23:03 |
| Scarlett | it has another SD card slot on the side, like the big one, not the micro, I could just add more space | 23:03 |
| genii | If the thing has an USB port you could try allocating a partition on an USB stick as swap and using that | 23:04 |
| Scarlett | it has two, a 3.0, and a 2.0 | 23:04 |
| Scarlett | that might work | 23:04 |
| Scarlett | I'd have to figure out how to partition it | 23:05 |
| genii | I'd use a small USB stick, like 4 to 16G, use fdisk to make one large partition of type 82 (linux swap) | 23:09 |
| Scarlett | got it thanks! | 23:17 |
| Scarlett | I have one thats 10gb somewhere | 23:17 |
| Scarlett | then I'll use fdisk | 23:17 |
| Scarlett | thank u | 23:17 |
| genii | Scarlett: Then later, if for instance that USB stick registers as /dev/sdg with partition /deb/sdg1, you can stick it in the machine and use swapon /dev/sdg1 to enable it, swapoff /dev/sdg1 to disable it so that it can be removed | 23:19 |
| genii | deb/dev , meh | 23:19 |
| genii | If you have it in while booting it should automatically be used | 23:20 |
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