List, Per, Continuing on in the guest to what is causing the ever present, but random instability in my 10.3 install on a Gigabyte N700SL board, I captured the following processes while the system was rendered useless by what appears to be cron gone mad. I have no funcky cron jobs, and my best guess is cron went south as the result of a hardware instability related to the Gigabyte mb that I have installed. It's not memory and it's not power supply. Both fresh and changed, but the same instability continues. The instability was present when the box was a mandrake 2005 server, and the exact same instability remains under 10.3. Nothing fancy here. Just a simple dm-1 dm-2 (2 250G Seagate) md raid 1, dvd drive, old ati xpert 2000 card (it is a text mode machine) and a 20G Maxtor as sda that holds the swap only. Here is what I found running after the machine went south today: root@trinity:~ # ssh david@bonza Last login: Sat Feb 9 23:20:43 2008 from mail.3111skyline.com Have a lot of fun... 12:45 bonza~> ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? Ss 0:01 init [6] 2 ? S< 0:00 [kthreadd] 3 ? S< 0:00 [migration/0] 4 ? SN 0:01 [ksoftirqd/0] 5 ? S< 0:07 [events/0] 6 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] 25 ? R< 0:00 [kblockd/0] 26 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] 27 ? S< 0:00 [kacpi_notify] 148 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/0] 149 ? S< 0:00 [kseriod] 172 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 175 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] 402 ? S< 0:00 [kpsmoused] 412 ? S< 0:00 [kondemand/0] 459 ? S< 0:02 [ata/0] 460 ? S< 0:00 [ata_aux] 462 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] 463 ? S< 0:04 [scsi_eh_1] 467 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] 468 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_3] 489 ? S< 0:00 [ksnapd] 627 ? S< 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] 628 ? S< 0:00 [khubd] 1067 ? S< 0:08 [kmirrord] 1068 ? S< 0:00 [kcopyd] 1122 ? D< 0:03 [kjournald] 1179 ? S