A PIII with 96MB ram became extremely sluggish inside X11. I managed to terminate the X server, bringing the system in a useful state again. While the system was completely quiet (no X server) I noticed that a lot of both memory and swap was being used for no appearent reason: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 93692 85164 8528 0 1404 75252 -/+ buffers/cache: 8508 85184 Swap: 133048 54944 78104 # swapoff -a (took a minute) # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 93692 41760 51932 0 1420 24828 -/+ buffers/cache: 15512 78180 Swap: 0 0 0 # swapon -a # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 93692 41852 51840 0 1420 24848 -/+ buffers/cache: 15584 78108 Swap: 133048 0 133048 It looks as if the swap partition is being cached in main memory. -- Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/