Hi, Peter is right. You can watch your memory utilization using someting like xsysinfo or xmem or free, and see how close you get. I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM. I have yet to see swap touched (I usually have an emacs and an Xemacs process up all the time).
manoj __> grep 'Adding Swap' /var/adm/kernel Jul 20 20:15:51 tiamat kernel: Adding Swap: 36284k swap-space (priority -1) Jul 20 20:15:51 tiamat kernel: Adding Swap: 128364k swap-space (priority -2) Jul 20 20:15:51 tiamat kernel: Adding Swap: 129932k swap-space (priority -3) -- It's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .