After my system has been up for around five hours some process sucks up all the cpu time and it stops responding to the commands I would usually use to examine what happened, ie. ps to search for process and top to check system status. Worse yet, shutdown will not work unless I use the -n option. I am stumped and almost ready to go back to 7.3 as I have just gone through the rpm and up2date "mysterious" freeze up issue and am starting to wonder if this upgrade is really an upgrade. System is a p3 600 with 384 mb ram. I don't have an extra monitor for the machine so I always run VNC to adminster/work on it when a GUI is needed. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list