One thing that's been worrying me about Linux on Java is that stock Linux systems have had a limit of 1024 processes, 512 per user. Each native thread is a Linux process, so that puts a quick hard limit on the number of threads your Java program could have. Linux 2.4 apparently removes the static limit of the number of threads, at least according to http://lwn.net/1999/1007/a/wwo_2.4.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]