Prof. Hill, On machine pv0420.vincent.iastate.edu, this process is slurping up a good chunk of the CPU on the machine. As it appears to be abandoned, could it be possible for you to look into killing it? USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND bouvier 12081 29.0 0.8 344 100 p5 R N 205:07 vi refr.tff Thanks. Jeremy Nelson