Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in news:5ufZR-5CX-19@gated- at.bofh.it: > > How huch RAM & which daemons do you have running? If your system > is RAM-constrained, it will be page a lot. > There is actually swap space used in my system but hardly. I have 256MB of ram and i can boot without swap-disk and get the same behaviour. I just tested a naked X-server (starting "X" on my console) and there the disk was silent... matthias