Hi, Debugging Java programs is broken on newer kernels (>2.6.14). Stepping over simple statements becomes awfully slow, without using any cpu or disk activity. Further, tomcat cannot be stopped with "service tomcat5 stop" (or maybe i'm not patient enough, it could be that it takes ages, but usually it is stopped in a few seconds on my machine) and has to be killed. the only thing i found on the web regarding this, is a kml -mm post regarding JBuilder debugging, with no solution to it, and a thread on intellij.net http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jsp?forum=27&thread=195506&tstart=0&trange=15 which reports that downgrading to 2.6.14 helps. This is on a current Suse-factory installation, with 2.6.16-rc4-3-default on x86_64. Should i file a bug report with sun, novell or the kernel guys? regards, erwin