Comment 13 for bug 267633

The programs I had running at the time of my second reproduction were Firefox, gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor, md5sum /dev/cdrom and deluge-torrent. You can see them in my slight-show. I tried videocapture with Istanbul and vnc2sfw, but it did not work. The slide show should be a good alternative. Anyway, the behaviour I saw was indicative of a BIOS issue. Please check out my post at the forum for more information. I have a discrepancy between the amount of memory recognised by gnome-volume-monitor and VirtualBox. There is 4 GB of memory installed on 2 memory chips of 2 GB each. Virtualbox recognises the correct amount of memory, while gnome-system-monitor, memtest86 and BIOS only recognised 3GB. As I have posted earlier, the eBay-vendor from whom I purchased the laptop, and who is currently delisted, might have tempered with the memory. The amount of memory used by aptoncd increased linearly while aptoncd proceeded with loading applications. When it nears 100% of 3 GB, it invariably crashes. Also I noted that the delug-torrent download used something in the line of 10 % of the slightly over 2 GB swap, but when APTonCD is started, this sometimes falls below 3%, while the RAM nears 3 GB usage.