On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ari Heitner wrote: > $ ps aux > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > ... > root 825 3.2 22.8 4856 3228 1 S 18:30 0:57 apt-get > dist-upgrade > root 826 98.2 22.8 4856 3228 1 R 18:32 27:41 apt-get > dist-upgrade > ... Uh, why do you have two of them running? APT is not multithreaded, it only forks when it is going to exec something. Strace it and see what is going wrong. Jason