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Special Forums Hardware Laptop freezing issues Post 302714059 by Corona688 on Thursday 11th of October 2012 04:12:06 PM
Old 10-11-2012
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Originally Posted by cokedude
I have a dual boot of Fedora and XP. I use Fedora way more often though. I have 4 GB of ram and a 4 GB swap. 4 GB of ram is the maximum with this computer.

Is this part a mistake?
No.
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Shouldn't I touch that file to create it first?
No.
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Why do you think it is ram instead of cpu issue?
As he says, "all the programs mentioned by you are relatively memory-intensive."

You'd expect a bad CPU to affect everything, not just particularly large things.
 

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