Robert Spangler, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 23:08:34 -0400, a ?crit : > I checked my memory and it appears as though most of it is being > used...I believe I only have about 40MB or so left out of 512MB. What do you mean by "left"? Linux always uses the spare memory to remember the files you have been opening etc. Having almost no memory "free" is completely normal. What wouldn't be normal is if in the output of the free command the "used" value is close to "total". Samuel