Greetings, I have written a script using lftp to mirror one directory from a ftp site. I do not have access to the server except for being a humble user. This is running on a fully updated Centos 5.3 box. I am using whatever is provided by the repositories. I noticed that lftp consumes almost all of cpu times I found this while searching for a solution. http://www.mail-archive.com/lftp%40uniyar.ac.ru/msg02101.html Could it be this reason? if its not has anybody else observed what I have described? What are the possible ways of getting around . I am using --parallel=10 in the mirror sub-command of lftp TIA Rajagopal