[email protected] writes: > I've got one using about 8 (editing a perl program) and one using > about 18 (gnus, reading my excessive amount of mail). Hah, count yourself lucky. Mine regularly exceeds 32 when splitting mail in gnus; which is fun[1] as this machine only has 32Mb of real memory. [1] for some versions of -- James - wishing he was still using *.comp.brad.ac.uk which had a tasty 1Gb of real memory...