OK, I may have cracked the runlevel 1 issue. It seems that LANG is not set in runlevel 1. I just ran the following tests, on the Sony system, OpenSuSE 10.3, in runlevel 1: LANG not defined: System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2815.8 664.1 System Call Overhead 15000.0 454455.1 303.0 LANG = en_US.UTF8: System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 1416.8 334.2 System Call Overhead 15000.0 455891.6 303.9 These last results pretty much match what I saw in runlevel 5 on the same machine. Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org