>The only other relevant fact was that the Server ran out of disk space, so I did a major clean up anf got back about 16 Gigs.
>The fact that the server was ruinning so low in Disk space .. could this have an effect I wonder ?

It might. In some cases increasing the swap file has the same benefical effect as decreasing vfp memory usage. If you were using a dynamic swap file and had no room left...

HTH

thomas