Thanx for the input David,

It seems as if everyone but me nailed this one.

I will work on it.

Neil

>I can agree with that one! That's why I explicitly open all tables using the SHARED keyword from now on!!!
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>But there are other things that may cause contention such as FLOCK(), doing a massive APPEND, or setting a lot of multiple RLOCK() on a table.
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>Dave