Please obtain a backtrace of the processes that fail. Use the bt command in gdb. Use gdb against either a running process before it fails, or against a core file. I've reviewed the alarm changes ... they reduce concurrency which should increase stability of the code ... but they may expose latent flaws. We may have to fix these. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/