Well, turns out this extra memory consumption only happens on my Solaris 10 x86 VMWare image running 1.8.2 (I downloaded the blastwave.org compiled version). Guess I'll compile one myself and see if I get the same problems (ugh, compiling anything in a VMWare image). -- Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum. -- James Alan Gardner --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com