Gnome Crash. esd procces the problem?

[Luis Daniel Benavides <dnielben bahiavirtual com>]

I am using RH 6.2 and latest helix gnome dist. my computer is a PII 400
Mhz 64 M ram, when I am working with netscape and I hide and try to show
my panel the system crash, I have to control-alt-bakspace log as root
and kill the "esd" process own by my working account. Somebody have this
problem what can i do to solve this. I have a problem with mp3 the song
ends suddenly.

What is the esd process?
Why my system info tells me that 88% of memory is in use(0 programs
open)?
This esd is the problem?
What happen with mp3?

With kde i don't have problems..... but i like gnome what can i do???