On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > I see that is taking up to 97% of the CPU and not letting go. > > Hewlett Packard has the test program on their web site. I can see no starvation. are you looking at it via 'top'? If yes then press 'M' to show all threads - test-starve.c is a threaded application. Ingo