Peter Farrow wrote: > I upgraded the motherboard to a 933 MHz PIII, same ram and disk > arrangement, > > Problem went away... > > Seems a PII 450 can't cut it on Centos 4.2.... but it is an old > machine anyway... That's good news. I have some older P3-733/512mbRAM 1RU machines that were lightly used that are being replaced. I was a bit nervous about deploying a couple of them as firewall machines, but I suspect they'll still outperform an ancient Cisco PIX 520 for satellite office duty. Cheers,