Xavier Lamien wrote : Actually, this was unrelated. I tried to remove some useless moin log output that was generating huge apache logs for noting, but the way I had "fixed" the problem lead to /dev/null being open too many times. I've updated to MoinMoin 1.6.1 and edited the one .py file that was generating the useless logs... didn't find any more elegant working solution. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 Load : 0.19 0.14 0.15