Danilo Camara wrote: >>If the http server was on your local machine it could very well have >>been disk access. > > About the download time, it is ok since most of them, are done only > once. My experience is that vsftpd provided better performance for me than apache for serving up headers. However, this was subjective, I did not run any benchmarks to test both configurations. I haven't tested the file:// option. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ That's your shadow on the wall Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net