Sort of. I did use that but I could never get it to actually cache anything. > My reads never got quicker than the first one, no matter many times I > called > the same files... But specifically I've heard talk from people asking > about > using local storage for caching, which is not supported under the io-cache > translator. So I would use that if it became available, and if not, I'll > eventually have to figure out why io-cache isn't working. On what files were you not getting the speedup? on executables? or others? if one shot of activity was exceeding the default cache-size value (32M) then you may have to tune your priority and cache-size parameters to get any caching effect. avati -- It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -- Hofstadter's Law