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Gerry & James, I'm reached an impasse trying to figure-out why the LDM on Ernie terminates abnormally. Enven though I now have several core files, the information they give just doesn't make sense. The problem could be the code, or the runtime libraries, or the kernel, or the hardware -- I just can't tell. Consequently, I've replaced the LDM on Ernie with one that has assertions and debugging enabled and whose "off_t" size is 32 bits (rather than the previous 64) in order to see if it, too, crashes. The big difference with this new LDM is that it will memory-map the entire product-queue just once rather than memory-map segments of the product-queue as needed. Regards, Steve Emmerson LDM Developer