Would anyone happen to have any idea why something like this would happen? This is on Solaris 2.7 with Zope 2.1.4. I can provide any other info you like, but I'm not sure what would be useful to know. ------------------------------------- load averages: 3.21, 3.08, 2.72 13:02:57 117 processes: 111 sleeping, 2 zombie, 4 on cpu CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, % swap Memory: 4096M real, 66M free, 4080M swap in use, 3255M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 5866 zope 8 10 0 2262M 2034M cpu2 149:09 24.70% python 1983 goldtest 4 0 0 37M 32M cpu3 24:54 24.62% tag_event 2370 goldmine 4 0 1 123M 116M cpu1 9:40 23.52% perl 2894 root 1 0 0 1584K 1184K cpu0 0:00 0.44% top 2372 oracle81 1 58 0 115M 85M sleep 1:20 0.34% oracle -------------------------------------- This happens regularly, as in, every few days I have to restart Zope. When I do python drops out of top altogther. Ideas? Please? Monty