On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:55:11PM -0700, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > Try running it as root and re-nicing it to have higher priority. PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 20909 root 10 -20 18M 13M nanoslee 0:06 1.99% 1.95% mplayer And it's still doing the same :-( -jm