Immediatly after booting my ubuntu 6.10 and creating a virtual terminal I do a procinfo memory Result: Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Mem: 247324 243376 3948 0 8056 Swap: 722884 0 722884 Since I am doing practically nothing, who is using all this memory? Can I turn some of if off? Is there not some kind of hog command in linux to list memory users? Or is 256M not enough memory for ubuntu 6.10? I admit my system runs fine most of the time.