<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Perhaps, but should I stop it. It doesn't seem to be thrashing. The box is still quite responsive. After 8 days it is still working. If I stop it, will I have a mountable filesystem that I can get as much as possible off. I have ordered some 400G disks to try to get as much as possible. Regards Per Andreas Buer wrote: <blockquote cite="midPERBUMSGID-ul6psvf4sq7.fsf@false.linpro.no" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Darryl Bond <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dbond@nrggos.com.au"><dbond@nrggos.com.au></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4562 root 25 0 780m 214m 236 R 99.9 42.6 6211:44 fsck.ext3 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I looks like fsck.ext3 has eaten all of your memory. Your system is probably thrashing. Buy more memory. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>