I'm on a Mac without antivirus. I've just added Captcha to one of my projects and I now see a 17 second pause during startup that was not there before. This is out of 39 second total start time, so it's a significant pause. 00:01:13,660 INFO [Contexts] starting up: org.jboss.seam.captcha.captchaImage *****17 seconds**** 00:01:30,292 INFO [Contexts] starting up: org.jboss.seam.ui.resource.webResource 00:01:30,293 INFO [Initialization] done initializing Seam My machine is very fast with tons of ram, no anti-virus, running the latest 1.5 jvm for the mac: 1.5.0_07-87 Any ideas? Thanks in advance! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097331#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...