Trevor Talbot wrote: > 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... That ties up with what I'm seeing - on 8.3 it's about 9.6KB per connection, and I get a little under a third as many connections as 8.2 before it dies. /D ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match