Hi, I've finally found a better way to bulk load records via perl & odbc - a lot more stable. However, I've noticed many times mclient crashing mserver5 when loading records via the interactive interface. For instance, I tried to load about 130 inserts from a sql file using this command : mclient -lsql -d mydb < public_sysuser.sql After few seconds I started to see : #BBPTRIM: memtarget=17978753 vmtarget=0 #BBPTRIM_EXIT: memsize=24100864,vmsize=273741960 [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] #BBPTRIM_ENTER: memsize=275281456,vmsize=275166768 #BBPTRIM: memtarget=19273201 vmtarget=0 #BBPTRIM_EXIT: memsize=24100864,vmsize=275158816 [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] #BBPTRIM_ENTER: memsize=276161752,vmsize=276047064 #BBPTRIM: memtarget=20153497 vmtarget=0 #BBPTRIM_EXIT: memsize=24100864,vmsize=276056368 [ 1 ] #BBPTRIM_ENTER: memsize=276322608,vmsize=276207920 #BBPTRIM: memtarget=20314353 vmtarget=0 #BBPTRIM_EXIT: memsize=24100864,vmsize=276198064 Top is showing : top - 23:26:14 up 249 days, 9:57, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.20, 0.45 Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4025600k total, 2433324k used, 1592276k free, 191788k buffers Swap: 9502408k total, 92k used, 9502316k free, 1993392k cached I don't think i'm running out of memory. I had to stop and restart mserver5, flush the table, then re-run the command - all the records were inserted. Also I noticed this type of messages on the mserver5 console when piping records through the mclient (over 1million records) . It seems that the mclient is quiet instable (cf my post about "COPY, terminating connection" few months ago). So, is there a way to increase the memory limit or make sure mserver5 won't crash when running bash inserts via a cron job ? Please advise, Thank you SB