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On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, James Fidell wrote:
I have an Atom 330 box as my desktop which is excellent except for Thunderbird, Firefox and Eclipse between them eating all my RAM and then some. I see there are a few Atom 330 boards supporting 4GB RAM rather than my current 2GB. Anyone care to recommend a box containing such a motherboard (I'm almost beyond the point of wanting to build a system myself). Bonus points for built-in bluetooth, firewire, USB/sound sockets on the front, card reader or space to add one and for not having a Realtek NIC or at least having space to put another in, having space for a 3.5" disk, a DVD drive and being small and quiet. Minus several million points for useless bling. Any pointers?
I suspect something is wrong with your setup.I have an Atom board with 2GB of RAM, running firefox, however I don't run thunderbird, or eclipse. I suspect you've got too many firefox plugins, or are running lots of other stuff that could be removed.
My firefox which has been running for 4 days i stitting at 331MB. From top:
Mem: 2051752k total, 1943008k used, 108744k free, 193696k buffers Swap: 2056316k total, 0k used, 2056316k free, 1319860k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7470 gordon 20 0 331m 162m 30m S 1 8.1 182:20.02 firefox-bin 2835 root 20 0 249m 25m 3628 S 1 1.3 64:07.55 Xorg 16229 gordon 20 0 2560 1100 812 R 1 0.1 0:00.56 top 16223 gordon 20 0 7204 2808 2192 S 0 0.1 0:00.14 xtermSo lots of space for everything else... I've been running this for about a year now and running out of memory has never been an issue.
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