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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-02-24 19:20, Israel skrev:
> On 02/24/2015 11:21 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Something is weird.
>>
>> I rebooted and
>>
>> 1. set the nm-applet via the menu,
>>
>> 2. then started it via the command line
>>
>> nm-applet  # do not use sudo
>>
>> and I got the icon at the right corner (even right of the Shutdown applet).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> Hi Nio, I am forwarding this to the dev list as well...
> 
> Ok,
> The fix for the nm-applet in the installed system is:
> sudo pico /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> *ever**thing* should be commented out EXCEPT
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> I did this in the first build... I just got busy and forgot it this
> time.  There is a lot to remember.
> I have an icon, and everything is working!  The next build will have
> this for sure!

OK

> The other thing of note...
> in partition-help  I think we should use
> ram=$(free *-m*|grep "Mem:"|tr -s ' ' '\t'|cut -f 2)
> 
> This lists RAM as MB
> I think it would be helpful to list the options for swap, and the
> reasons why.
> To suspend we need twice the swap as RAM.  So we should note that.
> However if we are not going to suspend, then
> IF RAM >= 2 GIG
> THEN
> SWAP = RAM/2
> ELSE
> SWAP = RAM
> 
> I know there are lots of theories about swap space, etc..
> but for a laptop that wants to suspend we need double swap space as RAM,
> right?

You need only slightly more than the RAM (in Gibibytes, base 2). It is a
waste of drive space to have swap = 2 * RAM nowadays.

> This system is sooo light we probably only really need 512MB for swap...
> for all circumstances (except heavy duty users with lots of RAM and lots
> of things going on)

Yes, I think 512 MB RAM is enough in most situations, and we could add
that to the recommendation (and allow for one more line in the xterm
window).

>  let me know your thoughts on this... anyone else feel free to chime in
> on the swap issue (or anything else)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> -Israel
> ToriOS Team
>