Hi All, I'm running a vanilla installation of SuSE 6.4 Intel on a Xeon 550 with 512MB RAM. The only locally-compiled software that's actually run on the system is: analog-4.16 (run nightly) cronolog-1.61 (several instances running all the time) php-4.0.4pl1 (used by one or two website scripts) (A full package list is at foot of this message) What I'm finding is that one of the nightly system cron jobs kicks off a "manpath" that enters a state where it consumes all remaining CPU time and does not exit. This results in a noticably degraded system.. eg. -- 8:52am up 14 days, 22:57, 1 user, load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00 131 processes: 120 sleeping, 7 running, 4 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 12.6% user, 87.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 516880K av, 170836K used, 346044K free, 66016K shrd, 100128K buff Swap: 528024K av, 872K used, 527152K free 22608K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 26322 root 20 0 704 704 384 R 0 25.8 0.1 611:41 manpath 24085 root 20 0 704 704 384 R 0 24.6 0.1 1331m manpath 21876 root 20 0 704 704 384 R 0 24.4 0.1 2770m manpath 29519 root 17 0 704 704 384 R 0 23.6 0.1 133:02 manpath 30364 admin 2 0 1108 1108 876 R 0 1.3 0.2 0:00 top 1 root 0 0 204 204 172 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:05 init -- I really have no idea where to start looking to correct this. Any advice gratefully received ! Cheers. -- Andy McClements Network Manager The London Institute HEC 65 Davies St. London W1Y 2DA Tel. +44 (0)20 7514 6051 Fax. +44 (0)20 7514 6046 GSM. 07776 303734 www4-it-ds:/usr/local/src # rpm -qa nkitb-2000.7.11-0 aaa_dir-2000.3.14-0 base-2000.3.14-4 bash-2.03-81 bdflush-1.5-157 cpio-2.4.2-157 cracklib-2.7-114 cron-3.0.1-162 devs-2000.3.5-7 diff-2.7-158 ext2fs-1.18-49 file-3.27-43 fileutil-4.0-75 find-4.1-157 gawk-3.0.4-79 gdbm-1.8.0-90 gppshare-2.95.2-26 groff-1.15-46 gzip-1.2.4-150 kbd-0.99-103 lilo-21-89 man-2.3.10d69s-41 mktemp-1.5-26 modules-2.3.9-37 ncurses-5.0-29 net_tool-1.54-27 netcfg-2000.3.13-1 yast-1.05.3-0 pam-0.72-33 perl-5.005_03-101 ps-2000.3.14-4 rpm-3.0.4-0 sh_utils-2.0-81 shadow-19990827-75 shlibs-2.1.3-65 syslogd-1.3.33-63 sysvinit-2.78-14 textutil-2.0-72 util-2.10f-32 y2base-1.2.1-7 gpm-1.18.1-65 yast2-1.2.1-7 ash-0.2-151 aaa_skel-2000.3.14-0 compress-4.2.4-153 ddrescue-0.98-51 less-340-80 libz-1.1.3-138 localedb-2.1.3-65 lvm-0.8-49 pciutils-2.1.4-26 reiserfs-3.5.18-7 sash-3.4-41 terminfo-5.0-29 timezone-2.1.3-65 vim-5.6-27 bc-1.05a-71 bonnie-1.1a-18 dump-0.4b15-11 eject-2.0.2-65 scanlogd-2.0-0 lsof-4.46-51 recode-3.5-76 autoconf-2.13-113 automake-1.4-107 bin86-0.14.9-43 binutils-2.9.5.0.24-30 bison-1.25-153 des-4.04b-57 gcc-2.95.2-26 gdlib-1.7.3-57 gmp-2.0.2-140 libc-2.1.3-65 libgpp-2.95.2-26 xs3-3.3.6-27 make-3.78.1-31 freetype-1.3.1-31 libjpeg-6.2.0-27 libpng-2.1.0-112 libtiff-3.5.4-44 amanda-2.4.1p1-90 apache-1.3.12-15 ftpdir-2000.3.14-4 htdig-3.1.5-11 ldaplib-1.2.9-26 lynx-2.8.3dev9-145 mailx-8.1.1-139 mirror-2.9-40 pam_ldap-46-17 procmail-3.13.1-54 sendmail-8.9.3-105 rdist-6.1.5-73 w3mir-1.0.8-76 wget-1.5.3-141 wuftpd-2.6.0-60 xntp-4.0.99f-0 xpm-3.4k-117 xshared-3.3.6-27 qtlib2-2.0.2-54 ucdsnmp-4.0.1-52 k_deflt-2.2.14-21 python-1.5.2-97 howtoenh-2000.3.11-1 hardsuse-2.1-15 ipchains-1.3.9-83 john-1.6-95 openssh-1.2.2-27 openssl-0.9.5-14 authldap-1.4.0-61 seccheck-0.9-15 tripwire-1.2-125 fvwm95-2.0.43a-162 pixmaps-0.1-157 allman-2000.3.27-0 phpdoc-3.0.12-42 pyth_doc-1.5.2-97 pg_ifa-6.5.3-46 perlmod-1.1-10 imap-4.7-40 mod_perl-1.21-84 mysqclnt-3.22.32-15 openldap-1.2.9-26 tcl-8.0.5-57 tk-8.0.5-57 pdflib-2.01-61 mod_ssl-2.6.2-15 mysqllib-3.22.32-15 aaa_base-2000.5.2-0 lx_suse-2.2.14.SuSE-24 mysql-3.22.32-15 mysqldev-3.22.32-15 mysqperl-3.22.32-15 patch-2.5.3-104 pcre-3.1-22 smp-0.01-55 tix-4.1.006-57 sax-2.8-121 xdmbgrd-0.2-139 xf86-3.3.6-27 xfsetup-3.3.6-27 xvga16-3.3.6-27 xman-3.3.6-27 bindutil-8.2.2-69 bzip-0.9.5d-62 flex-2.5.4-156 gettext-0.10.35-132 nkita-2000.3.14-4 nssv1-2.1.3-65 pgp-2.6.3i-140 postgres-6.5.3-46 rcs-5.7-149 strace-4.1-43 texinfo-4.0-46 unzip-5.40-107 xdevel-3.3.6-27 adabas-11.00.07-13 mod_php4-4.0.0-15 susefont-1.24.0-9 rsync-2.3.2-22 suselxen-6.4.0.3-1 tcsh-6.09.00-27 transfig-3.2.1-124