Ron Roskens said: >So a program like syslogd might benefit from threads, since it has >multiple inputs and multiple outputs? Yup, here's syslogd on a single proc Solaris 8 system. 170 root 3328K 1556K sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% syslogd/11 That would be 11 threads/lwp. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com www.rmkhome.com