I've tried top, if I re-direct the results to a file it seems to provide me with an ls of the /sbin folder, before the table of processes, is that correct? I'd like to post output from top (or perhaps another CPU/MEM util together with output from free on here with swap set to different sizes to see if anyone can shed any light on it. meta-crawler doesn't seem to be running. I usually only tend to have 2 or 3 apps running, and had to load up about 8 before swap even came into the occasion.

I know that I now have it working, but I'd really like to know why. It has taken me a week to even start to get to grips with a new OS (with huge amounts of help from this forum), I'm enjoying myself but realise I haven't even scratched the surface so far.

Tim