Does debian use a swap file I assume so......if not well forget this but if so somehow mine went south!....... gnome system info shows 0 swap for itself and used etc..... reason asking is sometimes my system'HD grinds endlessly away at something..when its done it and i've had system monitor running I see nothing going on....if system monitor hadn't been running before I can't run it because the system is bogged down with the runaway process.. thanks anyone lee -===