The best thing to do in a hang situation is to attach to the server with gdb and get a stack trace of all of the active threads. http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/59.html -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/