I read: > > Does this happen with the -rt flag set ? > > Yes! How did you know? :) hmmmm ... are you on 2.4.20 and using ext3 ? I had really bad lockups due to an ext3 bug in 2.4.20 went back to ext2 and now the lockups are gone regards, x -- chris at lo-res.org Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/ special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via ctheory.com)