There was an article about a kernel patch to improve performance. www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html it involves adding this to ~/.bashrc | if [ "$PS1" ] ; then mkdir -m 0700 /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user/$$ echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user/$$/tasks fi and this as root: ||mount -t cgroup cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu -o cpu mkdir -m 0777 /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user| My machine Centos 5.5 does not have a /sys/fs/cgroup Is there anything else to do instead? Jerry