[DC LoCo] Friend getting an error message - "not enough free swap"

[Dan Chen]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 21:39, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
> I set up a friend with a Linux Mint computer and she tells me she is
> repeatedly getting the message, "not enough free swap" when using Firefox.
> I suggested she reboot and she is still getting the same message.  Maybe I
> need to head over to her place to install Chrome, which is less memory
> intensive.
>
>    Does anyone on this list have other ideas to try? Best as I can recall,
> her computer either has 512 MB of memory with Linux Mint 9 (or 10) on it, or
> 256 MB of memory with Linux Mint LXDE.

In a pinch, i.e., assuming she can't modify the existing on-disk
partitions, there's
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-August/192756.html
with instructions for using a usb thumb drive for swap.