Carlos, et al -- ...and then Carlos E. R. said... % -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- % Hash: SHA1 % % Could you post the result of "ulimit -a", please? Preferably on a recently % installed machine, to compare with mine. [snip] FWIW, here's mine. davidtg@gezebel:~> ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 55666 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 55666 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited As you can see, I pretty much abuse poor gezebel: top - 12:59:06 up 33 days, 18:03, 32 users, load average: 11.42, 10.58, 10.38 Tasks: 664 total, 14 running, 650 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 26.1 us, 3.4 sy, 69.9 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 13937.92+total, 252.180 free, 13051.25+used, 634.488 buff/cache MiB Swap: 66560.00+total, 45603.69+free, 20956.29+used. 492.770 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 30377 boinc 39 19 393660 79696 8776 R 78.88 0.558 127:25.08 rosetta_4+ 18727 boinc 39 19 548988 86336 10200 R 75.25 0.605 417:19.49 rosetta_4+ 32698 davidtg 20 0 24.785g 385124 31620 S 74.26 2.698 238:59.10 chrome 9720 boinc 39 19 548988 86092 9976 R 70.96 0.603 473:51.14 rosetta_4+ 12415 boinc 39 19 390744 251880 8780 R 70.63 1.765 34:33.32 rosetta_4+ 15891 boinc 39 19 549768 102764 15176 R 68.65 0.720 436:36.33 rosetta_4+ 12034 boinc 39 19 390420 253340 10564 R 67.99 1.775 36:31.57 rosetta_4+ 10146 boinc 39 19 549548 97692 11172 R 63.04 0.684 471:34.84 rosetta_4+ 11043 boinc 39 19 549548 95308 9940 R 58.09 0.668 465:08.92 rosetta_4+ 14027 davidtg 20 0 24.810g 258980 32268 S 43.56 1.815 275:06.43 chrome 13611 davidtg 20 0 24.833g 220644 35500 S 27.06 1.546 450:04.11 chrome 17877 davidtg 20 0 65512 3596 612 R 16.50 0.025 0:13.26 rsync 17875 davidtg 20 0 65948 5600 920 R 14.85 0.039 0:12.94 rsync 18588 davidtg 20 0 24.792g 111228 25004 S 13.86 0.779 14:34.68 chrome 11975 davidtg 20 0 24.796g 111528 26016 S 11.55 0.781 5062:22 chrome 11773 davidtg 20 0 17.096g 32720 10044 S 9.571 0.229 5386:22 chrome 12706 davidtg 20 0 17.098g 245660 51704 S 5.281 1.721 945:14.89 chrome davidtg@gezebel:~> ps aguxw | grep chrom | wc -l 292 And yet she keeps running; she only slows down when I'm doing serious USB data transfer. So far, no core dumps -- unlike occasionally on another machine which turned out to have a bad DIMM. HTH & good luck & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt