Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond me). Also the 2.1.x series of kernels has done a LOT of work on large mem handling. Try a newer kernel and see of that helps. -- ===== Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today