byers@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE top - 10:18:26 up 22:51, 5 users, load average: 1.26, 1.08, 1.02 Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 97.4%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2062832k total, 1743068k used, 319764k free, 159264k buffers Swap: 5960084k total, 36k used, 5960048k free, 786128k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2338 root 20 0 2272m 381m 1724 R 90.8 18.9 1280:29 kerneloops 1871 root 20 0 111m 51m 9196 S 4.0 2.6 7:10.93 Xorg 2323 byers 20 0 56120 13m 9704 S 2.3 0.7 0:12.34 gnome-terminal 2731 byers 20 0 147m 35m 11m S 2.0 1.7 29:52.16 npviewer.bin 2546 byers 20 0 377m 114m 24m S 1.0 5.7 26:29.51 firefox kerneloops eating up cpu I don't know what triggered this. But I had just started security-only update, new kernel included. That update finished. I haven't yet rebooted to try the new kernel. Maybe safer to go back to previous ( ie one behind) instead to see if that kerneloops is "fixed'? The time diagnostic cant be correct 1280. minutes? or am i misreading it? This machine has been hard-booted 2-3 times in last 2 days. Once a power failure, others because of X freezing on me. Advice? go ahead and reboot with new kernel? reboot with present kernel? reboot with one older kernel? thanks for any/all help Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines