[Bglug] Acer Aspire One

[Anthony Morassutti]

Which Elive version did you use, stable or beta?

If it's the Stable version, that's likely your problem - it's built on
Debian Wheezy so the software is really old.

On 02/01/2022, Remi Gauvin <remi at georgianit.com> wrote:
> On 2022-01-02 10:25 a.m., Dave Jackson wrote:
>> My friend just returned the [2008] 10" Acer I had loaned him many years
>> ago.
>> Time to resurrect from the dead and "play"!
>> Added an SSD and 2Gb of ram.
>> I had noticed one of the members promoted Elive, so loaded the 32 bit
>> version.
>> It looks good, boots fast and programs load quickly.
>>
>> I ran speed tests and downloads are ~7 to 10 Mbps
>> Sites that are data heavy eg: BBC, CBC are painfully slow to load.
>> Firefox and Opera have the same speed issue.
>> It has an Intel Atom processor. This may be the limitation?
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to improve data heavy websites on
>> "Mini-Me"?
>> Thanx,
>> Dave
>>
>
> Does adding 2GB Ram that is now your total?,  Use top and free -m
> commands to identify your bottleneck,, cpu or ram?  I suspect ram.
>
>
> In the output of Free commands, if the total of 'Mem' and 'Swap' values
> in the 'Used' column exceeds your ram, that's going to degrade
> performance very quickly,
>
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