Greetings all. I am trying to run some stuff using the SNOW library on RH EL3 intel x86_64 and I am running into this error: Error in unserialize(node$con) : error reading from connection I am using sockets (not preferred but I can't seem to get rpvm or Rmpi either one to work on x86_64 for different reasons) and it seems to work well when the jobs are small, but it seems that they are timing out after only a short while if the work takes longer than a couple of minutes. Is there a way to adjust the timeout for the socket without doing so in the snow source (which I am not entirely comfortable with)? J. Cowan Yale University School of Medicine Core Tissue Microarray Facility 310 Cedar St., PO Box 208023 New Haven, CT 06520-8023 ph 203-785-6532 email: james.cowan at yale.edu /******************************************/ To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you're a mile away and you have their shoes. /****************************************/