Hi, I have syslog-ng version syslog-ng-2.1.4-1.el5 running on RHEL5. When I run the top, syslog-ng process runs on only one CPU, but this is a 24 Core server. How do I make syslog-ng share the load across several CPUs or cores rather than have it stuck in one CPU? Any suggestions are appreciated. TOP output for syslog-ng: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11304 root 18 0 2023m 1.9g 1252 R 95.7 2.7 22658:29 syslog-ng MPSTAT output: 01:16:53 PM CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %idle intr/s 01:16:54 PM all 6.37 0.00 1.38 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.00 92.08 5073.74 01:16:54 PM 0 90.91 0.00 4.04 0.00 1.01 3.03 0.00 1.01 4942.42 - my guess is this is using syslog-ng 01:16:54 PM 1 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 2 14.00 0.00 3.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 83.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 3 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 5 12.00 0.00 6.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 82.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 6 11.11 0.00 4.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 84.85 0.00 01:16:54 PM 7 0.00 0.00 1.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.99 0.00 01:16:54 PM 8 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 9 11.11 0.00 2.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 86.87 0.00 01:16:54 PM 10 1.00 0.00 6.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 91.00 122.22 01:16:54 PM 11 0.00 0.00 1.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.99 0.00 01:16:54 PM 12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 15 0.00 0.00 1.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.99 0.00 01:16:54 PM 16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 17 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 19 10.20 0.00 1.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 88.78 0.00 01:16:54 PM 20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 5.05 01:16:54 PM 21 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 22 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 01:16:54 PM 23 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 5.05 Thanks # mukarram Mukarram Syed