I am not sure why but my system is not swapping. When I run swapon -s it shows: Filename Type Size Used Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 2031608 0 -9 When I run free -m it shows: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1003 986 16 0 81 450 -/+ buffers/cache: 454 548 Swap: 1983 0 1983 The really odd thing here is when I open a terminal i get: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable bash-3.00$ How can I force the kernel to swap? uname -a shows : 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux any info is good info, and thanks.