Vijay,
I m not sure, but may be linux in gui is much much resource hungry and due to shortage of ram swap space comes into the picture.
Swap access seems to be the problem.
Regards, Sampat.
I R Veejay victorjulietpapa@hotmail.com wrote: I would really like to know why does linux access the disk so much (in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of m/c configuration.
veejay
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