> I too am running KDE 2.2.2 and a Viper 770. I haven't seen this problem. > Are you both running the latest Nvidia kernel modules? (version 1.0.2314) > That may be the cause. XFree86 version 4.1.0-11 as well.
Raśl Santana mailed me (Thanks!) that this is probably caused by a mismatch between kernel version 2.4.13 and NVidia drivers. I've just changed to 2.4.17 and altough I haven't used it for too long yet, it seems to have helped: either it is only my imagination or the system now swaps a lot less and is much more responsive. If the former proves to be the case, I'll let you know. :) - Jarno