Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop locks up after slack64 14.1 install

Didier Spaier · 02-20-2014, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Just something I learned a long time ago. Can't recall where, but the guy who told me it said always do double your RAM, unless you have over a certain size and amount, of which I forget just in case, but it had to deal with how much swap could be accessed should the need arise, but over a certain amount was unnecessary as it's just eaten up HDD space.

In other words, that's just an old myth. I don't see any ground to choose JFS or BtrfS over ext4 either, until/unless some special use case of which OP didn't make us aware of IIRC.

TobiSGD · 02-20-2014, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

I don't see any ground to choose JFS or BtrfS over ext4 either, until/unless some special use case of which OP didn't make us aware of IIRC.

FWIW, at least on SSDs JFS is in many use cases significantly faster than ext4.

enine · 02-23-2014, 12:16 PM

FWIW the Inspiron 15xx are hot running, you'll go through hdd's faster than average. The HP Evo n610 was another.

onebuck · 03-04-2014, 02:10 PM

Hi,

I have a Dell 1501 and no such problem with it for temperature damage to 'HDD' while using a spinning disk. The Dell 1501 now has a 'SSD'. I do use Laptop coolers for all my Laptops to aid in stability and prevent any potential heat issues.

@op You can replace the 'hdd' with a like unit or just get a reasonable cost 'SSD'. This will speed things up for the older Dell Laptop.

You can look at post # 368 for some helpful information. Other information within that thread for 'SSD' setup.

Another useful theread; http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...an-ssd-925789/

Hope this helps.