Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I just learned something else. If I stop the autofs > (/etc/init.d/autofs stop), then the original mount command works > fine. If autofs is restarted, the mount command fails again. autofs service == automount process # yum --enablerepo development update autofs I updated mine to the one from the development repo, on restart it didn't take up 30% of CPU... maybe worth a try... -Andy