<cite> > Anyway, I don't know WHY I think that's what's making this thing hang, but > I figure I may as well try and get rid of it. Can Linux do huge swap > partitions yet, am I missing something, or what? </cite> Yaron, I am merely a weenie, but I can safely tell you that Linux, at least with the 2.4 kernel series has no problem with swap partitions over 128MB> I have a swap partition that is 800 MB at the moment. While that is less than my RAM x2 it doesn't really get touched anyway. I am wondering why you need 1.6 GB of swap. Samir M. Nassar RedConcepts.NET - http://redconcepts.net