Chris, I don't have any answers, but I think restating this might help people spot the problem. > When I turn off GANGLIA's gmon daemon, the load drops down to ordinary > rest states (0.1-ish). After some debugging to isolate the behavior, > there's clearly a causal link between gmond on the portal and these > high loads. -Alan -- - Alan Kilian <kilian(at)bobodyne.com> Director of Bioinformatics, TimeLogic Corporation 763-449-7622