Andy Green wrote: >> Anyone have an idea how to find out what it is "sleeping" on? >> What's it waiting for? > > lsof -n | grep yum > > will show everything it is touching, maybe it can give a clue. Completely OT, but this really amazed me ---------------------------- [tim@martha ~]$ lsof -n | wc 2503 22548 241073 ---------------------------- Can that really be true? 2500 open files? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland