DB abstraction is not always that easy .. especially if you automaticly retrieve records which have relations between each other Gene has many history History has a Status History has a User Status has a User ... User has many Gene :/ I think the machine is trying the swap it's way back to life ;) And instead of calling that program on the commandline, so you could simply ctr+c it, I've called it with RPC ;) This way the webserver locks up, logging into the machine is 'waiting' .. and trying to restart apache requires 3 inputs ;/ (instead of the simpel ctrl+c) https://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/knowledge/wiki-bioinformatics/hall_of_sh... -- ================================================================== Kenny Billiau Web Developer Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM kenny.billiau@psb.ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================