>The top that comes with OS-X seems to need these flags to sort by CPU time, >run it in a Terminal: > >% top -u -s5 I have a split personality about command line (having used unix and other command line OSes since before many of the members of this list were born) and GUI interfaces, but For the Rest of whoever prefers GUI's, you can of course accomplish the same thing in OS X by using the /Applications/Utilities/Process Viewer, and clicking on the "%CPU" column heading to find out who the culprits are. You can also click on "%Memory" to see who the biggest hogs are there. Joe Gurman -- "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001 Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA