Hi everybody, I'm using suselinux7.3 (upgraded to 2.4.16) on a pismo (500 MHz with 512Mb of RAM, 77 Mb of swap space), with KDE2.2.1. I recently upgraded from suselinux7.0 (upgraded to benh kernel 2.4.9-benh0) and KDE1. It looks as if RAM usage is far from optimal in the most recent configuration. For instance, running a single job that requires 112Mb of RAM brings the system in a situation where over 450 Mb of RAM and 64 Mb of swap are actually used (according to top). The situation was much better with the old distribution where top was indicating memory usage of only of order 120 Mb of RAM and 0 Mb of swap in the same situation. With the original 2.4.12 kernel (coming with suse7.3), the situation was better than with 2.4.16 (although not as good as with suse7.0 and 2.4.9), but computing speed was significantly slower (by as much as 20%). Any ideas of where this could come from and how to fix it?? jean-francois Donati -------------------- Jean-Francois Donati Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France E-mail: jean-francois.donati@obs-mip.fr, Tel: (33) 561332917, Fax: (33) 561332840, URL: http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/people/donati