Dear snow users, is there any way to specify a max time after which makeSOCKcluster() stops trying to create socket connections and gives up/returns ? In my current setup (MAC OSX 10.5.8, R version 2.9) I have to force quit R if the host specified in makeSOCKcluster() either does not exist or does not respond. On Linux, I can at least manually interrupt the function via Ctrl-C Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, Markus [[alternative HTML version deleted]]