On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 03:45:02PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > Prelink also hogs the CPU and causes a similar problem as you describe. > Rather than disable all of these services, adding preference entries for > controlling background processes to run at lower percntages would be a > better approach. They *do* run at lowered priority, but maybe also doing something to limit their CPU usage would also be good. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.