> OS: Solaris 8 > LDAP: 2.1.17 > DB: Berkeley 4.1.25 > Hardware: Way more than I should need I would suggest you look at the perfomance numbers for BDB at: http://www.openldap.org/conf/odd-sfo-2003/jong.html You were probably running LDBM before with 2.0.x. You may want to try LDBM again if you don't need the transactional integrity of BDB... -lon