| | | | Check your ulimits e.g. using the sh/bash command `ulimit -a'. | | Well it is set to 8192 kbytes for both sparc and linux. | I set it to 16384 kbytes: same problem. Bingo! I set the number of maximum file descritors to 256 (it was originally set to 64 on the sparc machine) and now it works !!! -- R1.