User development, A new message was posted in the thread "JBoss 3.2.6 - pauses for a minute during startup": http://community.jboss.org/message/528930#528930 Author : Peter Johnson Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/peterj Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- Another thought - did you preallocate the disk? If not, VMWare at times expanding the size of the virtual disk could explain the wild differences in "pause" times. -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/528930#528930