Hi there Just came across this very good article on linux.com covering the commandline tool "top": http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/42048-uncover-the-meaning-of-tops-stati... I'll have to admit, most of the times I only use "top" to see what process is sucking up all that CPU again... :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174