> I don't think this is loop-AES related. Maybe even indirect relation is quite weak (swapping). > You could start > resource-hogging applications Could you name some? About too little memory: true, that is the cause. Still, I can be working with big swap quite nicely, but sometimes (rarely) comes something, that freezes system for too long. That makes me looking for some way to prevent those rare, ugly cases. Sorry, if offtopic, just I wanted the opinion of list. Jan - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/