Ok, Now I'm confused... After all of the discussion about ram size/swap size, I decided to try and make my 1G Toshiba P35 laptop start swapping stuff to the swap file. I opened everything I could think of, 4 konsoles, 2 Open Office files, 3 Gimps, 2 Firefox, 2 Kongueror, Kjot, knotes, ksnapshot, kstars, Amarok, Thunderbird and several more, but the memory required, as shown by top, *never* exceeded 1G. The more I would open, the more slight slowness would occur, but I *always* had 13k - 15k of memory left and *nothing* was ever written to the swap file. Is this normal?? Was the memory just being remapped from the inactive programs? How can I test to see if my swap file is working? The partitioner says it is fine, mounted by the kernel as hda5 and is a nice health 2G in size. But if I can't get the laptop to write anything to it, how do I know it is working?? Weird question I know, but when I opened 15-20 applications I expected something to start getting written to the swap file. Any thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org