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Ok. Thanks for your help everybody. I noticed I have been using Crash/Freeze/Lock interchangably. What I really mean everything stays still and what's on the screen when it freezes is still there (basically it becomes unresponsive)

And I know what a swapfile is, I don't have one set up but it crashes even before it hits 50% used.
Also, I'll try that Firefox cache-control tip.

Thanks again, you've all been very helpful. My Linux experience has been very pleasant so far (and not to mention fun). :)
Hi,
I've inquired on this before, but thought I'd chime in.  When booted from USB, my DSL 1.5 absolutely does not turn on the cooling fan on my laptop.  This was true on my Compaq NC610c and is also true on my HP/Compaq nc6220.  This will definitely cause the machine to "freeze" (sic) from overheating within 1 hour.  I don't know why the fan does not come on under DSL, but it doesn't.
I encounter the same issue as described above on my laptop. This is a Compac Evo 600n (if I recall correctly). It has 1 GHz processor and 385 MB RAM. I have had Debian Sarge, Ubuntu Hoary/Breezy on it, and everything worked fine. With DSL 2.0 frugal install (toram option) though, the fan appears to be turned off. So, whenever the CPU reaches 100%, the machine takes a little "thinking break", and it hangs, i.e. the mouse doesn't follow along, and applications doesn't respond untill the CPU usage goes down again. Perhaps this is a problem with Compac laptops? Or has anyone using a different kind of laptop experienced the same issues?

Now, with my laptop this is only a minor annoyance. It is a quite powerful machine, and it doesn't happen all the time. But it still is somewhat annoying. If you guys find out something more, or know a possible solution to the problem, I would like to know! In my case at least, I am quite certain that it is not a hardware related issue, as everything works fine with other systems (like Debian/Ubuntu) on the same machine.

-r
Does it behave differently between a DSL livecd bootup vs. a USB frugal bootup?

If so, open up the syslinux.cfg on your pendrive and compare the settings between it and the /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg file on the livecd.

Maybe there is an apm or acpi cheatcode that is missing (or should be removed) from one version or the other.

original here.