I've recently installed Amule 2.0.0rc5 on FC2. It has so far taken ten minutes to start up and has not yet succeeded. It is taking up almost all of the CPU time in the system. top output follows: top - 10:29:35 up 2:30, 4 users, load average: 2.08, 1.74, 1.07 Tasks: 102 total, 2 running, 100 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 66.8% us, 33.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 257104k total, 253652k used, 3452k free, 9440k buffers Swap: 522104k total, 105148k used, 416956k free, 90128k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4860 dave 25 0 28084 9620 23m R 85.5 3.7 8:31.79 amule 3315 root 15 0 70572 22m 43m S 7.3 9.1 8:55.79 X 4840 dave 15 0 27340 12m 20m S 6.0 5.1 0:01.93 gnome-terminal 3557 dave 15 0 19164 5196 16m S 0.7 2.0 0:10.35 clock-applet 4881 dave 17 0 2652 952 1784 R 0.7 0.4 0:00.54 top 3402 dave 15 0 14156 5952 12m S 0.3 2.3 0:06.19 metacity 4835 dave 15 0 40600 16m 30m S 0.3 6.5 0:01.76 abiword 1 root 16 0 2384 500 1480 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.74 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper does anyone have any idea why this is? Dave -- Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings