Good point. On the other hand, I just did an ``ls *'' on mine and it dies if I don't add some swap, but seems to work fine if I do. Regardless, he probably has more FIDs than I do, and could easily hit that limitation.

I'd have suggested the tar thing if (1) I'd realized that the empeg had a tar on it and (2) I hadn't been rusty due to having been out of work as a Unix sysadmin for nearly a year now. (This marks the 4 millionth time I've mentioned I'm out of work.)