I ran strace on each thread and all of them gave me back my command line except two. One of them doesn't give me back the prompt, it just hangs there with "about to attach 4bfb", the other doesn't give me pabk the prompt with: about to attach 4af3 wait4(19451, which is consequently the other process that hangs my prompt. Neither of these were the process that spiked. Any ideas where to go from here. It's still hung? -- Jason Spisak 444@hiretechs.com