> 0.23 seconds on a 35MB mailboxes file. I thought I saw in one of you > other e-mails that yours was taking about one second? Yeah, .95 seconds in my case. Even with a 4-cpu box, our user load makes that intolerable, the latency causes things to back up. John -- John Madden Sr UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden at ivytech.edu