In my case, the server machine rebooted and started a new fio server after the client had issued a long running script. The original client continues to futilely wait for the server to come back and return results for its script. I am on Fedora 17. Thanks much -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html