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Scott, According to top the machine appears to be cpu bound, maybe even a run away netscape process 1957. Also, I notice that there are many pqact entries with FILE -overwrite -strip parts. These cause high disk usage. It looks like some gempak decoders were running too. Also you are feeding downstream sites. I would comment out the pqact entry in the ldmd.conf and try running the system. Also, it was impossible to search the syslog.log over the network. There are instructions on creating ldmd.log files, at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html#s8 It's much easier to debug a system that been set up according to the ldmd conventions. When you remedy these problems then lets see if the ldm exits? Robb... System: hackey Fri Feb 19 15:29:57 1999 Load averages: 1.60, 1.57, 1.70 153 processes: 151 sleeping, 2 running Cpu states: LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS 1.60 54.9% 0.0% 45.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Memory: 91824K (65840K) real, 115800K (73860K) virtual, 70464K free Page# 1/11 TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND ? 1957 rhart 236 20 24032K 12704K run 6079:30 90.20 90.04 netscape ? 15331 gempak 154 20 260K 240K sleep 0:20 1.87 1.87 pqing ? 1764 rhart 154 20 25368K 13444K sleep 3:48 0.48 0.48 netscape ? 16198 gempak 178 20 284K 292K run 0:00 0.37 0.37 top ? 15055 scunn 154 20 432K 884K sleep 0:06 0.34 0.34 dtterm ? 362 root 154 20 72K 164K sleep 31:45 0.21 0.21 syncer ? 1487 gempak 168 22 64K 244K sleep 20:37 0.18 0.18 ftp_loop ? 3 root 128 20 0K 0K sleep 14:10 0.13 0.13 statdaemon ? 15330 gempak 168 20 328K 308K sleep 0:01 0.11 0.11 pqact ? 820 root 154 20 6076K 1364K sleep 3:56 0.07 0.07 rpcd ? 10104 gempak 168 20 2280K 1568K sleep 2:24 0.06 0.06 nag_watch.pl ? 15054 scunn 154 20 1596K 1460K sleep 0:01 0.05 0.05 dtfile ? 574 daemon 154 20 26996K 25300K sleep 19:50 0.04 0.04 X =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================