Hello Chris, no, it's not. I tried it now. I connected using command-line mysql and waited some time and then tried to run some sql statement. From processlist I could see that running command resets this time, so it is probably idle time. Friday, August 5, 2005, 2:55:11, Chris Wagner wrote: >>>>4183489 svbsoftsk host:43790 svbsoftsk Sleep 295239 --- --- CW> I'm pretty sure that's the process life time. Not an idle time. -- bYE, Marki