I'm able to provoke a loop in kern/kern_sysctl.c: 1316 do { 1317 req2 = req; 1318 error = sysctl_root(0, name, namelen, &req2); 1319 } while (error == EAGAIN); Is the "do while" realy required here? Details @ http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/cons44.html -- Peter Holm