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Off Topic / Need help with Memory Issues on Chromium on Lubuntu
« on: August 06, 2013, 08:39:32 PM »You see, my grandpa has this old Dell Inspiron 6000 laying around and when I went to his home to have dinner with him he mentioned that it is running extremely slow...
He brought me to it and showed me. When he tried to open Internet Explorer, it literally took around 2 minutes just for the program to start. It was really bad. I took it home and after further investigation I think he is infected with some type of virus that is taking his CPU load up to 100 percent. Now, I cannot even connect to my internet for some reason. Every time I hit connect it starts to connect but quits for some reason and never does. I can't get to the internet.
I think my only option is to boot to some Linux distro and see how it runs there, the problem is that I have absolutely NO idea what distro I should use and how I should boot it without installing it. I heard that there is Live-CDs where I can just boot from and it won't install it. What I found was this http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/features
I think this can allow me to see how this laptop performs and test the CPU load. I found Xubuntu and I'm going to use the tool I specified to live boot from my USB.
This problem has been solved and I now know the source of the problem. I connected my ethernet cable to the laptop and every time I try to load a page it goes...
"He's dead, Jim! Either Chrome ran out of memory or the process for the webpage was terminated for some other reason. To continue, reload or go to another page."
I set the persistent memory of the live boot to 2GB, is that too little? What is the problem here?
