>That's definitly isn't my experience. I have 768 MB RAM in a 400 Mhz >Tibook and I do eat for longer than 20 minutes several times a day >:-), leaving the computer to act at it's own will. However it will >go to sleep fairly quickly. Are you suggesting that I should change >the sleep time to something longer in order to achieve Unix >maintenance? I always keep the HD set to never sleep when plugged in; only sleep screen. Also, you must, of course, be quit out of the memory hogging apps when leaving the boxen idle. -- ************************************** Mike Bigley wakinyan at mac.com Maineville, Ohio http://www.redthunder.com Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr **************************************