Here's something a little lighter than MOS. :) Checking the uptime on a dev server I found that has been up almost 2 years: uptime 17:53:26 up 715 days, 57 min, 22 users, load average: 0.33, 0.15, 0.10 Then I checked it on our production eBiz server: uptime 17:50:26 up 910 days, 12:39, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.08 Yeah, that caused a smile. :) Both are RedHat AS 4 Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com