Another thing to think about is where to put them. If you have multiple drives, you'll want swap on each drive to give the OS a better chance to do paging where it's not already doing I/O. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno xeno@eskimo.com Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.