I've read a few posts about increasing this value when " There are no DB handles to use" occur. Not sure if it's a good idea. Granted your DB is fast enough to query quickly. Upping this value on a slow DB will severely degrade performance. What's sort of values are you guys using for production servers? -- Regards Stelio Gouveia -- Skyrove Software Engineer, Skyrove (Pty) Ltd Technology Top 100 Award Winner (2006) Mobile: +27 82 34 09 120 Tel: +27 861 ROVERS (0861 768 377) Fax: +27 86 6204077 Email & Gtalk: stelio@skyrove.com Skype: skyrove_sa Web: www.skyrove.com This message contains confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message.