Thread Management... Previous posts were rejected in error... If the entirety of what you're making a decision on can be expressed in a handful of facts then it may be reasonable to use a stateless session, as you will need to insert them for every request. <S> We could only do so if we were to enable a "read through" much in the way of hibernate search; however, the entire potential reference dataset per event is moderate (on the order of 4 GB). </S> -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/A-few-general-questions-on-scaling-Stat... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.