Hello, taking off from Michael's problem, we are also facing another problem, we are using JDK1.2 on Linux 6.0 with JSDK2.0 and GNUJSP0.9.10 and ours is a web application where the development is on JSP technology. Now we have to perform database queries on the server side depending on the requests from the client side. We found out the following : 1. When we do a httpd start, about 11 process entries corresponding to httpd are shown on doing a ps ax | grep http 2. For every database query that is fired, we get, as a sample 15696 ? S 0:03 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15720 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15721 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15722 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15723 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15724 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15725 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 15738 ? S 0:00 /home/jserv/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java org.apache.j 3. Upto this point everything is fine. In my code I have a finally phrase where I have a close() method written specifically for destroying any databse connection associated with any particular class. It does simply rs.close() and con.close() where rs is of the type ResultSet and con is a Connection class object. 4. But I realise that even on destroy(), the entries in point 2. still persist although they should not have been there. So this creates problems when multiple users are testing the application, then we get arbitrary databse connection errors. This, I think is the problem of native threads being spawned, but not SIGTERMed when the finally method is called. 5. Is the diagnosis given in point 4 correct ???? If so then what can be the solution for native thread problem ???? If the diagnosis is wrong, then what is the problem ??? Please let me know Thanks and regards Aditya ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]