Doug Winter writes: >7 seconds! Ye Gods! what machine is that on? A 32 way ppc64 machine at 1.1GHz/CPU with 60GB RAM... I've since found out he's got it down to 4.8 seconds with 1.3GHz CPUs :-) Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug