top on my 4gbyte machine, "out of the box" kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.358 Mem: 3636020k total, 799388k used, 2836632k free, 197444k buffers Swap: 8385528k total, 0k used, 8385528k free, 192556k cached -- Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/