just an interesting thing for others to look for: from top on Solaris 2.8, perl 5.6.1, argus dev-20040202 PID USERNAME THR PR NCE SIZE RES STATE TIME FLTS CPU COMMAND 18196 argus 1 58 0 795M 588M sleep 122:44 0 0.08% graphd 17985 argus 1 58 0 32.8M 31.3M sleep 58.5H 0 2.23% argusd Jeremy Kister http://jeremy.kister.net/