Kyle> It is probably happening, but slowly. If your machine is paging Kyle> heavily, as you indicate below, even if VM gives up control it Kyle> can be a while before your computer starts listening to you Kyle> again. Disk interrupts have priority over socket or terminal Kyle> waits. Also XEmacs might be stuck in page wait. I finally got some long awaited memory for this machine so it doesn't really swap anymore, and I think flushing did stop when I typed. However, I'm not sure since I didn't notice until just before it probably would have stopped on its own. I'll try again. Ray