In general i find these results strange. I have just upgraded my box from FreeBSD-5.1 to FreeBSD-5.2 and i find it more responsive by far than previously. Of course this is not a benchmark, but goes in a different direction to what you are seeing. By the way i have compiled some big softs on 5.2 like the sun jdk1.4 and i have not observed an especially slow build. -- Michel Talon