[philonous]

This is the output of top in my terminal:

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
75176 top 12.2% 0:01.43 1 18 28 616K 200K 1216K 18M
75150 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.16 1 15 22 720K 488K 1232K 18M
75149 login 0.0% 0:00.04 1 17 49 260K 288K 1024K 19M
75148 Terminal 8.9% 0:02.22 3 101- 176 2164K+ 6076K+ 7344K+ 115M
75110 SecurityAg 0.0% 0:02.48 5 117 163 1860K 6316K+ 6328K 111M
75109 authorizat 0.0% 0:00.09 1 31 35 524K 576K 1572K 29M
19537 LKDCHelper 0.0% 0:00.03 1 18 24 0 196K 388K 19M
18936 Skype 0.2% 46:46.29 19 372 545 18M 5160K 21M 197M
18736 OmniWeb 0.1% 84:29.47 21 433 2041 89M 13M 105M 578M

My apologies for my ignorance of memory usage, but isn't 578 Mb of virtual memory still way too much. My hard drive is going insane caching stuff. Is this the cause?

Payam