Thanks for the input! :wink: Btw, managed to f**k up everything, by trying to increase the savefile by 1 gb, then doing it again without fixing it during boot. (yeah, read too late about that bug :P ) The savefile became 3 gb but puppy used it as if it was still 1 gb, and there is no way I could fix...

hmmm... I have not set up any swapping space (most task managers clearly indicate this fact).

Which is dumb.

I tried with the usual terminal commands like say these, but keeps creating the swap space into its savefile.

Is there a way to make a linux swap file outside the savefile?

regarding my issue with virtualbox, I may have found the cause. Seems like RAM usage is to blame, and if I set the virtualbox's dedicated ram too high (more than 512mb out of a total of 2 gb), puppy seems to kill the new program that is using too much RAM. Before it was virtualbox since it was the l...

I installed lighthouse pup mariner (the 700-ish iso) on a 20 gb external HDD using the puppy installation procedure, then moved sfs around and everything seems to work correctly. (to boot from it I use a cd with plopboot since my BIOS is too dumb to recognize it as a boot device even if in puppy's c...