Glad you liked it Luke! I felt like it needed to be said. On the factor of 10x issue: That the improvement is fairly close to the increase in clockspeed, well, it still seems low to me considering that the Pentium has gone through several big rounds of architectural rethinks since the PII and has generally been beefed up in a number of ways. Either they're all for naught and clockspeed is what really matters, or they're necessary to make up for memory still being much slower than the CPU. Uh oh, I see this article is now on Slashdot, with a link to Lambda. Here's hoping both servers come out okay :)