I ran the commands to look at the parameters myself and I can't see any differences between the sysctl.conf files nor from running "sysctl -a|grep.... SAs are refusing to look at it anymore because they say it's correct. Is it possible that EM is incorrectly reporting the values? Is there some kind of refresh I need to do before the compare? I'm concerned because I remember the problems we had setting up the production server until we got some of the net.ivp4 settings correct. -- Sandy Transzap, Inc.