Hi, got everything installed now, but when sage first runs (e.g. during post-install of the ebuild) it tries to perform inits and spawns a lot of gap processes. their all look like this: root 25781 25769 0 15:29 pts/5 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/gap -r -b -p -T -o 3900m /opt/sage/data//extcode/gap/sage.g root 25782 25781 0 15:29 pts/5 00:00:00 bash /opt/sage/sage -gap -r -b -p -T -o 3900m /opt/sage/data//extcode/gap/sage.g root 25785 25782 0 15:29 pts/5 00:00:00 bash /opt/sage/local/bin/sage-sage -gap -r -b -p -T -o 3900m /opt/sage/data//extcode/gap/sage.g As you can see here there are a lot of these... denkmatte archtest # ps -ef | grep sage | wc -l 1780 Naturally load goes up a lot and this does not seem to finish. Any ideas? Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle