Hi! I finally got my home network up and running, although there's plenty of fine tuning left to do. I have SuSE 5.3 (2.0.35 kernel) running on a machine with an AMD 5x86 133 processor (a VIP motherboard). I've got a Mediaone cable modem, with IP forwarding through a firewall. I understand that slower processors can be used as a server with little, if any, penalty on responsiveness. As I understand it, the CPU isn't much involved, and all the data is passing through the same size "pipes". My problem is this. In accordance with trusted guidance, I have various forms of logging on, and although performance may not be impacted on account of the processor and ethernet cards, with everything being logged to disk, Internet access does seem to be slower. Is there some way to reduce/avoid the constant disk writes without compromising security? Thanks. Stan Koper - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>