I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had the "fun" of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU & disc. On "quiet" PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O. For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the start command line to be "/usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS" Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start up. Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer affects me, and that makes me happy. All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is forgiven !) GTG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org