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Re: [LUG] Playing flash

 

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 10:02:49 am tom wrote:
> On 26/01/11 09:28, george wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 11:02:21 am Rhia Knowles wrote:
> >> George, if Firefox is just vanishing... do you see an messages in the
> >> kernel log reporting something along the lines of (it is in plain
> >> english but the wording may not be exact) "I am out of memory, killing
> >> something"
> >> 
> >> Last time I saw behaviour like that, this was what was causing it:
> >> Linux has a very aggressive memory management strategy, and the 
best
> >> cure it to make/enlarge a swap partition so it doesnt need to 'kill
> >> something'
> > 
> > Thanks for that Rhia.  I've been a bit busy moving 2 machines over to
> > Mint Debian and dealing with bits that go missing during a move but it
> > has been very successful.  I also also gave the power supply a good
> > clean and I haven't had any problems since although I haven't been
> > playing much flash either.  Also, I already have a 2 Gb swap drive.
> > 
> > Thanks to everyone, I'll see what the next week brings.
> > 
> > George (Back to the joys of NFS)
> 
> Is this a 64 bit machine? I seem to remember somewhere that the 64 bit
> flash player was even more of a dogs dinner than the 32 bit one so try
> running the 32 bit one
> Tom te tom te tom
Yes, it's 64 bit and your right.  I've always had problems with 64 bit flash.  
I got it working for a while in Mepis 8.5 (Debian based) and then adobe 
screwed it up again.  Mint Debian seems a lot better.

George

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