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[Bruce Smith]

> > How much swap space do you have?  (type "free" at a command prompt)
> 
> 133048 (blocks?)

KB.  You have 64MB of memory, and 128MB of swap, or 192MB of virtual memory.
You could easily be running out of total virtual memory (192MB).

> I will check again after opening a number of browsers, don't have time
> tonight.

Keep an eye on your swap space usage. 

> > What window manager are you using?  Some of those are memory hogs too.
> 
> KDE.  Even worse than opening a lot of browsers is starting up Star Office.
> That takes a few minutes to load itself up.  Very slow operation too, it
> can't keep up with my typing.
> 
> I am able to do what I want to do with the current setup, but I would like to
> speed it up if I could.

I'd buy more memory.  It should help a lot.

Unless you're running a real slow CPU, then I'd buy a whole new PC.   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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