RESOLVED - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7163 There was a code construct in the DSDT BIOS code that exposed a memory leak in the ACPI kernel module. The leak is patched in 2.6.18.rc1 onwards and it was possible to rewrite the DSDT code such that the memory leak condition was avoided on the unpatched 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 kernels. "Thank You" to Fiodor and Alexey for helping resolve this so quickly. - Roger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html