------ art_11359_14724454.1170868902759 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline We've been struggling with this problem for months. We use TupleSpace to implement a distributed processing framework and periodically if the number of objects in the TupleBag gets large (not ridiculous but 50,000 or so) the TupleSpace begins to take 100pct cpu and is effectively neutered and must be restarted. We've been trying to come up with a better implementation of TupleBag but have not had much luck so far. Has anyone else done this? Mark ------ art_11359_14724454.1170868902759--