On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 01:23 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > The old machine I'm talking about has less than 1GB RAM, > and is running Fedora-12, so surely it must need to swap sometimes. > > Is there any way of forcing a machine to swap? There's a boot-time parameter to limit the amount of RAM it uses. That should force the issue if you want to. See bootparam(1). Or just use Open Office :-) poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines