Henry Hartley wrote: > As far as I know. How can I tell? df reports that I have (among other > things) /dev/shm (128104 / 100% available). Is that swap? No. The easiest way to check swap is to run free (from a command prompt). It reports: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1025568 1012780 12788 0 74376 616300 -/+ buffers/cache: 322104 703464 Swap: 2024108 196 2023912 saying I have 2 GB of swap, of which 196K is used. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to @westexe.demon.co.uk | realise that you are in a hurry.