Yeah, that's what I figured.

It's interesting, though, because it only affects Perl loops (it doesn't even affect function calls or system calls). I have a csh script that's been in a foreach loop for over 5 days at the minute ...

There's nothing obvious on the process table, as far as I can see.

Anyway, thanks for the help .. I'll give the sysadmin a call and see what he has to say for himself :)

--Foxcub