On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:34:35AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:06, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Core dump files are globally set off in /etc/init.d/functions and in... .... > these. Which makes it doubly puzzling that CROND sits forever in state > 'coredump'. Coredump... I thought you said that they were waiting on disk. (could be dumping core, could be something else). What is happening with swap and other disk I/O generating processes. Are any of your file systems 'non-local' automount, nfs, samba, loop-back, CDROM.... -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net