I don't think so. The only one I've installed that seems to be quite a memory hog is Sente, but I've installed it just a week ago. silvo On 7 Mar 2005, at 01:39, John Lyon wrote: > Have you installed any new programs, esp. shareware or beta software? > > On 3/6/05 4:16 PM, "silvo conticello" <silvoc at tiscali.it> either wrote, > forwarded or quoted: > >> I've recently noted an increase in system instability: >> sometimes applications start crashing one after the other until I get >> pissed off and restart the computer. >> Once I ask the restart usually it just log-out and re log-in. >> After a further restart command it finally restart. >> >> This has happened already 3-4 times in the past months. I haven't >> added >> RAM at this time (I've added 1Gb 6 months ago, few weeks ago I've >> re-tested it with the Apple Hardware Test CD). >> It might be that the instability follows hard use of the computer >> and/or a period with only 5Gb free on the HD (I don't remember if this >> has been a constant). > > - Silvo Conticello Albook 17" 1.5GHz/1.5Gb RAM/80Gb HD/OS10.3.8 iMac 1GHz/500Mb Ram/80Gb HD/OS10.3.8/17" display Cambridge UK