I wonder why there is no in-kernel irq balancing for the AMD64 architecture yet. I guess this shouldn't be much different to the i386 code. Someone willing to explain/provide a patch? Tom -- T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@hostmaster.org for key Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously.