Every couple of hours my machine freezes while the disk grinds for ~8-10 seconds. I'm using RH 7.3 with their stock 2.4.18-3 on an IBM T30 laptop. Anyone know what this is? It's a little annoying. Actually I recall noticing my desktop was definately stickier after "upgrading" from the 7.2 kernel (don't recall what that was). Has anyone else encountered this? Do you have any recommendations? Mike -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/