I recently installed Netscape 7 on my Suse 7.0 system. It's a Pentium II 450Mhz machine with 768Mb RAM. I have a Linux swap partition that's about 2Gb in size and two other linux partitions totalling about 20Gb in size. After the successful install I was able to run the program fine BUT... there was a constant flood of hard drive activity slowing the machine to a crawl through cold molasses. Took it 30 seconds to respond to mouse click and so on.

Thought this might be memory problem so ran "free". This told me that I only had 64Mb RAM installed (obviously less available) and that there was zero swap space available. Netscape 7 was the only application running. Can anyone tell me why the machine is reporting so little RAM compared to what's installed and what could be using about 2Gb of swap?

Thanks!