> > I havn't had the kernel oops on me in a very long time. What were you doing? Running X. X is capable of blowing _the_ _entire_ _system_ out of the water, and XFree 4 did it to me a number of times, on simple things (like trying to display a huge string in a window) -- I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go, A bit or byte to read or write, I/O, I/O, I/O...