Folks, I had been fooling around with a small benchmark of my code (remote client calls session bean calls entity bean, a little db i/o) and trying to figure out why it was so darn slow (100 xactions in 70 seconds). I stripped the code down to a simple round trip between the jboss server and a client in another VM with little improvement but then killed setiathome (which I had running "nice" in the background) and the full-blown code (after I put back the database I/O) did 100 xactions in 15-16 seconds. This is debian linux (potato), sun jdk 1.3.0, jboss 2.2 on a 1.2G athlon with 256M memory. Everything's swimming, no swapping. The solution is easy enough ("doctor it hurts when I do this" "don't do that"), and therefore not terribly critical but I'm curious if anyone knows why setiathome and java should have such a cat fight. I can't remember any other application running any slower with seti in the background. TIA, Toby Cabot _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user