![]() ![]() I don't have all the specs at the moment and HP has moved (retired as they say) most info on 10+ year old products. That combination works well in Windows XP despite not having TRIM or other SSD utilities. Also as mentioned in the original post, it has a 250GB SSD mounted in an mSATA to 44-pin ATA IDE adapter. It can be run with as low as 128GB graphics memory. It has an ATI Radeon Xpress Zoom graphics system with a maximum of 256MB memory. As I mentioned in the original post, this machine has the maximum 2GB of RAM. It seems it comes with 256-MB DDR1 synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) at 333 MHz, expandable to 2.0 GB.ĭo you have all the specs for this computer? It just needs to get over this one hurdle. Its almost there and handles Ubuntu well. This old laptop still has life in it (XP works perfectly) so I want to put it to use. I installed 16.04 on a new machine and its great. I have an external USB DVD RW abd would use it if I could. Maybe it has some intermittent problem and can't carry the install to completion. ![]() This machine can't boot from a USB DVD RW and if it did I would be using it, since the internal DVD RW is a replacement for the original which was failing, and now the replacement is old too. I wonder also if the DVD RW in the machine could be tired out during install. The laptop is old and I wonder if the motherboard may have bad caps or some other low level problem, though the old Windows HDD never freezes. The Md5sum was correct and the DVD was checked with the installer menu choice for analyzing the DVD contents. though I know its possible the 2nd one could be bad. Running the live DVD shows that the machine can handle the load, as the graphics are fairly smooth.Ībout the DVD, I have burned a second one (the first was 16.04 beta). The install does start with a message about the synaptic touch pad not having a driver (or something similar) so I'm using a mouse which it recognized perfectly. I tried disconnecting every external piece of hardware (USB express card, cardbus, etc). The drive shows up accurately in the BIOS boot selector. Ubuntu should be able to install properly on an SSD. About the SSD, it functioned perfectly under Windows XP. ![]() I know the cause could be related to many things, though I am certain that 64 bit 16.04 can run on this laptop (AMD ML-40 processor, 2GB ram, 240GB SSD in adapter tray). At first I thought it was occurring only during the final hardware configuration part of the installation but it has happened earlier during the file copy section. However the installation of 16.04 freezes during the installation. I am thinking of increasing the server RAM from 2G to 4G but not sure if that's the permanent solution.I have n older HP DV8100 series laptop that has been used with previous versions of Ubuntu 64 bit (14.04, 13) and those installations have worked well. They can be left for days for that matter. Have attached the screenshot of the latest run where after running the 8 instances, last 2 froze. But if few clients are heavy in memory, same thing happens. Then found out that RAM (2G) was being overused, hence increased swapping memory from 0 to 1G. Here sometimes it went fine but sometimes last instance froze. Then batched the script, means if there are 20 input clients, ran 5 instances (4*5=20) of script. Debugged & profiled and found that its not the script that's causing issue, but its the system. Then found out that sometimes, script froze during run (or basically its in "comatose state"). Hence optimized it with ThreadPoolExecutor (max_workers=10) so that script can run on 4 clients concurrently (almost). Originally script took around 2 mins to complete, with 300 MB RES & 1000 MB VM (as per htop), for 1 client. And in one of the projects, I have a very resource intensive python script (which fetches data for Facebook ads), to be run on all those clients (say 500+ in number) in ubuntu 16.04 server. I work for a digital marketing agency having multiple clients. ![]()
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