I don't quite know why this is happening, but smbd has 200 processes for maybe a few dozen users. The system becomes insanely slow and load averages are 163.93, 161.58, 150.62 Is there a way to limit the number of smbd processes per user? or is this not wise? What else can be done? -- James Bagley | CDI Innovantage james_bagley@non.agilent.com | Technical Computing UNIX Admin Support DON'T PANIC | Agilent Technologies IT Phone: (541) 738-3340 | Corvallis, Oregon --