Excuse my ignorance but couldn't the problem (at least in some part) lie in the fact that everything is coded/compiled for a 386? Surely code could at least run more efficiently with code that is compiled to use things like MMX, MMX2 and 3Dnow technology? I find it insane that I'm gonna have to upgrade my memory just to run Konquerer, a print server and Open Office. Just look at these statistics from top.
20:54:12 up 1:38, 1 user, load average: 0.94, 0.29, 0.09 100 processes: 98 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.8% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 95.6% idle Mem: 256156K total, 251956K used, 4200K free, 2304K buffers Swap: 136512K total, 84580K used, 51932K free, 44340K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 311 root 18 0 149M 148M 696 S 0.9 59.4 5:08 cupsd 1870 wayne 10 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:04 soffice.bin 1916 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1917 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1918 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1919 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1924 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1926 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1927 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin 1009 wayne 9 0 18316 11M 5708 S 0.0 4.5 0:28 kmail 1725 wayne 9 0 16904 7288 4680 S 0.0 2.8 0:09 kdeinit 575 root 13 -10 273M 7272 1660 S < 1.1 2.8 0:30 XFree86 982 wayne 9 0 11608 6536 6068 S 0.0 2.5 0:02 kdeinit 954 wayne 9 0 11384 6432 6028 S 0.0 2.5 0:27 kdeinit 1928 wayne 8 0 9796 5540 5320 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 kdeinit 992 wayne 9 0 10008 4976 4308 S 0.0 1.9 0:01 kget Thats almost all my memory gone. I'm thinking of downloading koffice just to do day to day things because if I tr load any other programs the system becomes unbearable! Just my thoughts --> lemme know if I'm way off base. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]