Jon, Thanks - that is what I assumed as a minimum of impact.  In fact, vmstat seems to be showing I have not even used swap for anything.  I think my only issue is disk space and I have a large section of this HD without a partition so was already planning to use it.
<br><br>Nathan,&nbsp; responses below:<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan England</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nathan@paysonlinux.org">nathan@paysonlinux.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; report that there had been an error running/accessing/??? aRTs (sic)<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; for AmaroK.&nbsp;&nbsp;I ended up turning it aff and I can't even find out what<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; it is.<br>&gt; &gt;
<br><br>You mentioned an error, so I was telling you how to deal with the error. You<br>got it because arts is not installed, or does not have all the dependencies.<br>Though you don't have 'KDE' installed, you may have many parts of it. Likely
<br>kdelibs and kdebase, or parts of them anyway if you are running amarok. As<br>well as parts of kdenetwork. Having 'KDE' installed is much like<br>having 'Gnome' installed. There are many big parts and you can have some
<br>small parts, but not the whole installed. You may not have the desktop<br>environment, but I bet if you have amarok installed, you probably have a few<br>other kde apps you don't realize.</blockquote><div><br>Yup, the error was that arts was not present (though not clear from the message).&nbsp; There was an option to not use it which I then checked.&nbsp; Thing was that I could not tell anything about what I was telling it not to use.&nbsp; A web search was not forthcoming with info either. Most references just said it was the arts engine for AmaroK which is a totally useless description.&nbsp; I did find one reference that seemed to say it was an add-on to AmaroK to support sound as if it could have no sound without it (clearly false since I have sound without it).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">1) You wont lose much functionality, if any.<br>2) Not really, freedesktop is working towards moving freely between desktops.
</blockquote><div><br>I had heard that and hope they get it done.&nbsp; &quot;Duping&quot; all those libraries is pretty silly (yes I know they aren't really dupes).<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
3) gtop, mem</blockquote><div><br>These do not appear to be present on the system (ubuntu 6.06).&nbsp; OTOH, standard top is as well as many usual ways of looking at memory useage which do not seem to show any issues.&nbsp; Perhaps those are KDE apps or maybe just not installed by default? 
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">nathan<br><br>&gt;<br>&gt; I do not have KDE installed, I do not have arts or kcontrol on the machine.
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