On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Michael Whapples wrote: > As suggested by others, there has been some particular problems on > certain hardware, so to see if it might be, what type of system is it > (eg. type of processor). I have also experienced occasional crashes of speech-dispatcher. I have a system with hyper-threading, and am using an SMP kernel. I wonder if it could be a problem specific to SMP machines? Maybe, it's some kind of race condition. Increasing the log level may be keeping speech-dispatcher so busy writing to the log file that it doesn't have time to get into the race condition. Just my theory. Any thoughts?