Every now and then famd gets hungry and eats up almost all the CPU time there is. The case when I experience this most often, though not always, is, when I'm making a backup while a Konqueror file manager window is open. Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a remedy? Michael -- Michael Schuerig Face reality and stare it down. mailto:michael@schuerig.de --Jethro Tull, "Silver River Turning" http://www.schuerig.de/michael/