Does your video card use shared system memory? If you don't have a separate card, I would recommend it (or just get more RAM). Also, how much swap space do you have? --Adam On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > does this happen to anyone else? my main box has 1g ram, it seems > generally adequate, tho thrashwaits of several seconds can happen with > heavy use. after just such times my desktop background may sometimes > seem suddenly to have numerous adjacent rectangles swapped, sometimes > a whole array of same, quite funky to look at. then sometimes > also/instead the fonts rendering firefox and/or libreoffice may be > partly replaced with funky hieroglyphics. sometimes relaunching the > app is sufficient, sometimes i need to relaunch X. this has happened > 2-3 times/month for quite awhile, hasn't gotten worse or better, i > always keep natty uptodate, i remember the same happening with > maverick, perhaps even earlier. could be hardware, could be software, > tho if software you'd think we'd be hearing about it..? surprisingly > i've not seen a single instance of data corruption tho. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120616/50286d62/attachment.html>