I tried using Schevo and it didn't affect memory use or performance, at least for my particular application. I tested it the following way: - "easy_install -b BUILD_DIR -Z schevo" - Change all "durus" imports to "schevo.store" - Disable Durus in easy_install.pth and verify it's not importable - Run the import and my sample search. I noticed Schevo doesn't have a PersistentSet class. This was added to Durus recently. In my case I wasn't using it anymore so I deleted the import. -- Mike Orr