I also have 1GB of RAM and I have only seen the swap used a few times, correct if I'm wrong but isn't a swap file (similar to windowz) created if there is no swap partition. Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "martin f krafft" <madduck@debian.org> To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:32 AM Subject: Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?