George wrote: > My server is a Dell PE1950 with 8GB RAM and 4 x 15K disks. I forgot to mention - it's got 2 x dual core 2.33 Ghz Woodcrest CPU's. The disks are in a raid 10 config. Also, the box doing the polling and the DB live on the same host. The poller runs with 80 processes. The ram is mostly for the DB. Cheers! George