Tim, > What do you mean with 'is so loaded' ?
I mean that "top" shows a high load. 'make' looks at these numbers. It has also a '-l' option. $ nm --dynamic /usr/bin/make | grep load 00000000006320f8 D default_load_average U getloadavg 0000000000425c10 T hash_load 0000000000415f10 T load_file 0000000000632100 D max_load_average 0000000000416470 T unload_file Bruno