All, We are reviewing processes on our P690 machine and get the following. I've googled a little bit but can't find anything of interest. Are these processes that I should be concerned with - should we kill them? A normal ps -ef | grep 45078 does not return the process, so I really can't figure out what these are. Thanks Tom $ ps auxw | head -10 USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND root 45078 9.3 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 120026:37 wait root 40980 9.0 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 116428:47 wait root 36882 8.9 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 114010:26 wait root 32784 8.8 0.0 48 40 - A Oct 13 113205:56 wait root 28686 8.8 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 112870:21 wait root 20490 8.8 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 112675:44 wait root 12294 8.7 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 112313:15 wait root 24588 8.7 0.0 48 40 - A Oct 13 111490:14 wait root 8196 8.4 0.0 48 36 - A Oct 13 108649:30 wait -------------------------------------------------------- This transmission may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information which is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is strictly prohibited. In addition, unauthorized access to this transmission may violate federal or State law, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1985. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the transmission and its attachments.