On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 02:51, khage wrote: I have used k3b successfully for some time, burning dvds, data music for a while on both dvdrs and cd's. But lately k3b sometimes when i burn mp3 get the whole fedora to a standstill, the harddisk works overtime and cant even bring up the screen after one hour working :) I have been able to shutdown as root though(ctrl-alt+f2) and got no errors through the shutdown process. Today the same happened and i got a bunch of errors (when shutting down), it told me that highmem was 0 and i was out of memory for each gnomeapplet/program that had a processid (probably). I have fc2 installed with the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel, latest k3b, running gnome (that followed fc2), latest xorg-x11, updated last night in hope to solve this issue. My box: athlon 1.33, 512 mb ram, nvidia geforce2 32 mb... My question is where to look in my box for some useful info that i can try to solve this issue? im for sure running out of memory. Btw, could the xserver also be involved in this memory issue? Several of us are having similar problems with this. It seems to happen with about any attempt at burning an audio cd. I believe that the problem is in cdrecord, rather than k3b. john