Hi, I got bored and killed (kill -9) dxspider after over one hour. netstat -tupno | wc revealed about 450 lines, after restart 160. What is the unkn-4 timer in tcp 0 13160 85.24.164.91:4168 146.83.196.31:9000 ESTABLISHED - unkn-4 (45.69/0/0) I have seen that twice during a hanged dxspider, normally it is either off or keepalive 73 Kjell