From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-10-15T23:28:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Multiple Processors on Windows 64-bit 2008/10/15 Bryan Richardson : > Thanks for the reply Robert. I'm accessing a MySQL database from the > scripts rather than the file system. Would this have the same > bottleneck? Probably. This depends on your network connectivity, how MySQL is configured (connection limits), what the IO bandwidth of MySQL's filesystem is and how MySQL is implemented (single threaded vs. multi threaded etc.). Looks like you have fallen into a classical performance optimization scenario. Now you'll have to find out where time is spent... :-) Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end