On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > Also your FreeBSD version 4.x might have also made the difference! Its entirely possible - you have to remember that FreeBSD-4.x only allows one process to be in "kernel space" at one time; its entirely possible that avoids various race conditions that show up on more fine-grained kernels on faster CPUs. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support -