Thank you tybalt89, yes you were right... the code it is far from being working. TheMagician. PS. to all the wisdom keepers: This is a Proof of Concept; what I would like to demonstrate is the scalability you can get from having 1 producer (server) and more consumers (clients) that are taking "$messages" from the same tcp source. And what about if you can control that the number of processes running at the same time? These are the data I am going to collect in order to validate the POC effectiveness.