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[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/21/2013 08:59 PM, JM wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:11:47 +0300
> Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/21/2013 08:00 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>> At this point it seems that we are trapped between a rock and a hard place.
>>>
>>> Kernel team <> ISO team. ::SIGH:: Such frustrations led to my resigning
>>> from various teams, I've asked a couple of people who can make an ISO with
>>> the test kernel if they would. Other than that, my hands are tied.
>>>
>>> We need an ISO with the patch that has been already applied upstream into
>>> it.... Grrrrr.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>
>> I did try this kernel the other day and it did lock up just like the one
>> in the repository:
>>
>> linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb
>>
>> I thought I wrote it in a message, but can't find it in my archive, so
>> maybe I didn't.
>>
>> So far turning off zram seems to be the only thing that works.  Or at
>> least seems to work, so far so good.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here is Joyce Markoll, aka Mélodie. I have used zram for many years in different shapes
> (ramzswap once upon a time when it was only in the compcache project) and I am very
> interested to see it setup in Lubuntu.
> 
> I wanted to join the testing since some time now but didn't find the right moment for it
> (except a fast test in a vbox machine some time ago), but now I'm zsyncing the iso to
> test it in one of my old machines. (T30 1 GB ram and intel 1.86 Mhz proc).
> 
> Just a thought:
> have you set it up to create block devices which are as large as 50% of
> the available ram, and one of those block devices for each processor detected, or did you
> setup other values? 
> 
> which method is used to start it at boot time?
> 
> Regards,
> Mélodie
> 
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I've used whatever the default for the recent ISOs has been.  If you
have a recipe for how to create the block devices you mention, I can try
that in tomorrow's run.

Regards,
/Lars