Thanks to all who replied. Richard, your solution works great. I didn't realize this was a script-specific mod. I thought there would be a setting in an apache2.conf or something on the FS. I'm very glad to have learned this. Thanks again! Richard de Vries wrote: If you are running on unix, the easiest way to probably do this is by calling the "setpriority" from within your perl script like this: setpriority(WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY); To set your current running perlscript to the lowest priority, you would call setpriority(0, $$, 20); $$ is your script's process ID, and "20" denotes the priority. (as you know, -20 is highest priority and 20 the lowest priority). Cheers, R. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx