Quoting Jay Kline (list at slushpupie.com): > I agree.. I have found that even with 384M memory I almost never touch swap, > and that is with several X servers running (those little memory hogs).. 128M > swap is what I have, I found anything more than that is wasted space. % free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516952 438608 78344 176652 75208 161940 -/+ buffers/cache: 201460 315492 Swap: 546048 466048 538300 -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9