Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: > ..what it needs to do, it can either do in some slick hardware, > or, the hard sweaty way by some software hack. Motion reads a > webcam to see if anything moves, then takes pictures and makes > movies from them. And, heavy swapping cause disk wear. ;o) Oh, no I have RAM enough - it has 192 MiB, and does not use it swap at all.