I wrote: [ desktop heap usage ] > It could be that there's a significant difference between XP and 2003 > in how that's handled though. I do have an XP SP2 machine here with > 512MB RAM, and I'll try tests on it as soon as I can free up what it's > currently occupied with. ...yep, under XP I'm using about 3.1KB of the service heap per connection, which tears through it quite a bit faster. Now to figure out exactly where it's coming from... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly