RS> I realise that the message base in AVT has been very deep for a long
RS> time now and that the slow tossing of the REP is quite recent. In
RS> other words whatever change you made lately, presumably stopping
RS> running under EXEC, has caused a noticeable increase in the tossing
RS> time to a deep message base.

PE> I only stopped running under EXEC about a week ago, in an attempt to
PE> fix Roy's problem.

I sort of feel that the slower tossing was before that. OTOH its
impossible to check from whatever logs I have.