Can you try 2.4.17 or newer please? Is there something holding you back? Is the 2.4.10 one of yours, or SuSE's? 2.4.10 had serious VM bugs (and it didn't have ext3 :) At 11:30 +0100 Klaus Erichsen wrote: >Suse 7.3 >EXT3 default installation on 2 disks (40 and 60 GB) >kernel 2.4.10-64GB-SMP