On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:26:40 -0100, Joachim Benjamins wrote: [MySQL} >up, because since I do this, I have not suffered dataloss or corruption anymore. >(And this *is* a heavily used DB) Also, use the latest TCPIP stack (4.32 >preferably) to be sure :-) well, lets start a discussion about "heavily used DB". i have a web DB running with 5.8 million records and about 200 transactions per minute. bernd