Well, I made it past that stage at least. I'm in 2.6.11 now, with noinotify. 14:06:31 up 9 min, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.54, 0.31 Creeping past Win98SE stability... I'll keep everybody informed, but I think it worked :( Why is that flag on by default if it's so brutal? -- nautilus