First of all, Happy New Year for everyone in the list. I wish 2007 brings all us happiness, health and peace. I want to read your advises at a point i am stuck within, i have an application that serves downloads to clients. For some reason i am limiting total open slot for some group of users (not related to my technical question). Example; // CHECKS SLOT HERE else { // IF THERE ANY AVAILABLE SLOTS SEND THE FILE // INCREMENT SLOT NUMBER BY 1 $fp = fopen($pathside,"r"); if ($fp) { while (!feof($fp)) { echo fread($fp, 334); $bytes_out += 334; ob_flush(); if ($bytes_out > $size) { // DECREASE SLOT NUMBER BY 1, BECAUSE THIS DOWNLOAD IS FINISHED } } } } Slots are recorded and checked from a simple mysql table. Everything works in this scenario. There is no problem if a person starts a download and finishes it, his slots get empty upon doing so. Yet if he cancelles the transfer, he will never reach my control structure to empty the slot. And slots will be full of zombies. I have thought of updating a mysql field for alive-connections in the while loop, but it will definitely add some load on my server. Updating a system file is not secure and good way. What other ways can you recommend to me for the situtation? Aras Koktas manager@xxxxxxxxxx Business Excellence Development Phi.dot Internet Systems -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php