I wrote:
[ desktop heap usage ]
> It could be that there's a significant difference between XP and 2003
> in how that's handled though. I do have an XP SP2 machine here with
> 512MB RAM, and I'll try tests on it as soon as I can free up what it's
> currently occupied with.
...yep, under XP I'm using about 3.1KB of the service heap per
connection, which tears through it quite a bit faster. Now to figure
out exactly where it's coming from...