As already alluded, enclaves are *ALWAYS* a good candidate. When we first encountered problems with them we had no idea what the issue was. Also worth considering, here's some thoughts from Greg a couple of years back (retrieved from my "saveit" folder) ...
"The most common causes of uncaptured system overhead are for excessive paging and a internal queue build up of SRBs (usually for cross-memory POST) due to server address spaces having a priority lower than their clients. The later is impossible to see with monitors." Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

