Appearently it takes 9 seconds to process flush-time cascades... whatever that may be? I'm only fetching data, it's a query. 2006-09-26 12:29:47,308 INFO [STDOUT] 2218 ms: findLayout ([/Default/giant2.layout]) = null 2006-09-26 12:29:47,308 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] processing flush-time cascades 2006-09-26 12:29:56,808 DEBUG [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] dirty checking collections View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3974167#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...