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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq