. I asked this question a while ago and never did get a solution, so thought I would try again. My system normally runs with a very small number appearing for "X" under %CPU ... but sometimes something happenss that causes it to jump to a high number (as shown below) and the only way I have found to clear it is to reboot. Then it runs fine for quite a while until the same problem occurs again. Surely there must be some way to clear out whatever is causing this log jam other than reboot. Any suggestions? top - 11:12:12 up 7 days, 2:14, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08 Tasks: 82 total, 2 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 56.3% us, 11.6% sy, 5.9% ni, 25.9% id, 0.1% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515484k total, 417720k used, 97764k free, 11952k buffers Swap: 2096440k total, 2696k used, 2093744k free, 244728k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3364 root 25 0 48356 38m 4732 R 97.2 7.6 6673:44 X 1 root 16 0 1564 540 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.50 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.82 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 5 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 81 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 kblockd/0 113 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.62 pdflush 114 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 pdflush 116 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 115 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.71 kswapd0 704 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss