I just figured out that my problems disappear when i turn swap on :-O but i dont know exactly what eats up my 256 MB ram - maybe raid? or is it the 2.4.18 kernel? top doesnt help me much - it shows no programms that use this much ram Best regards, Marcus Roelz - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/