Hi! [~]$ uptime 7:25am up 3 days, 17:26, 5 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 [~]$ on absolutely idle computer. I suspect it is because of [~]$ ps xa ... 346 ? D 0:04 update (bdflush) ... 1801 ? D 0:00 mount /mnt/cdrom ... [~]$ How could I kill these processes? kill -9 under root doesn't kill them. Bye, | System administrator for Penn. | netline.co.il http://nct.netline.co.il/~peter/hp |