Alan, The 2.2.18pre-19 build does not reproduce this problem with NFS RPC timeouts, and Andre has merged his patches for our next release, and I am unable to reproduce it. In fact, it's running great. I did have NDS eDirectory installed on this box when I saw the problem, and without this software loaded, it seems to be gone. I think it may be related to eDirectory in some way (top is reporting some busy process in eDirectory). I held off posting the release to reverify the 2.2.18pre18 problems, and to get Andre's patches into the release. We will go out with 2.2.18pre-19 at this point. Also, I am seeing a lockup on 2.4.0-10 with uniprocessor PPro systems with SMP enabled, but it runs great on a 4xPPro system with SMP (???). I rebuilt with SMP=N and it also ran great. One for H. Peter Anvin I think .... :-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/