I found my 2.4.9-0.11 (yes, I admit - not the latest) hung already a few times. It was spinning on the takslist_lock (which was holding the value 1) in my system with just one CPU - when I store a 0 in the lock it normally crashes with a program check. In this case fcntl.c:397 - in send_sigio_to_task Suggestions? Rob