in a brief rethinking, that is excatly what i need to do - change the php itself... now, i found the execute function but can someone please explain how can i put a usleep or sleep or somethink which doesnt take up cpu cycles (like the sleep command in linux?) thanks/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php