Hi there, I have a VM with 16GB RAM and 8 Cores. It's job is to accept a HTTP request using PHP, take the data (documents) and run open office to convert it to plain text and return it. Up until now this process has been fine. It seems that the server hangs as it just gets overloaded. I've just changed the cron jobs from the sending servers to space them apart and also upped max / min spare servers. Previously I have tried other approaches like the JAVA headless and running OO as services and using HA Proxy. They haven't been successful (could have been my implementations). The script loads its own version of OO each time a connection is made. Is there a better way of doing this? Seems like an awfully big VM to falls over/hang all the time. Your help / ideas / rants are appreciated. Thanks Piers