hi all from a couple of days back a box running 2.4.2-2 (redhat 7.1) after some time op usage blocks when reading from /proc/[pid] for some process ... the ps / top / pstree / etc. cmds don't work as they 'hang' when reaching the bad process ... hence i can't find out which process is to blame ... when would such a thing happen ? ( block on reading from say /proc/31315 ) ? adieus cheerio b2 b2@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/