In message <9708131226.ZM20156@picasso.me.ic.ac.uk>
          "Robert Black" <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:

> This doesn't sound as if its the problem. Running top or vmstat 1 in
> another console might give you some insight on the problem.

What sort of things should I be looking for?  I did try it and the amount of
free memory never dropped below 30MB, and regular df's showed that free disk
space was plentiful throughout.

-- 
Mark Sawle        m.l.sawle@warwick.ac.uk
                  mlsawle@locutus.demon.co.uk