Hello Andy I see that in the xrootd version 20050509-2006 the olbd on the redirector crashes when the first client connects. This problem is related to the olb.sched directive. Using olb.sched cpu 100 the olbd crashes. If this option is commented out the olbd runs fine. You can find the core, xrdlog, olbdlog and executable (olbd) in: /nfs/objyserv01/objy/databases/wilko/xrootd/test_20050513/olbd_sched/ I also put the xrootd configuration file for the redirector (xrootd_rdr.cf) and the data server (xrootd.cf) in the directory. The data-server is datadevsol01 and the redirector is datadevsol12 all machines and executables are for SunOS 5.9. The core file shows: tersk07 > dbx ./olbd core Current function is XrdOlbManager::SelbyLoad 1320 if (np->isSuspend || sp->isDisable) {nums++; continue;} (dbx) where =>[1] XrdOlbManager::SelbyLoad(this = 0x9b878, mask = 3ULL, nump = 1, delay = 238924, reason = 0xfe7fb14c, needspace = 1), line 1320 in "XrdOlbManager.cc" [2] XrdOlbManager::SelServer(this = 0x9b878, needrw = 1, path = 0xc03bf "/prod/test/f1", pmask = 0, amask = 3ULL, hbuff = 0xfe7fb2df "", iodata = (nil), iovcnt = 0), line 764 in "XrdOlbManager.cc" [3] XrdOlbServer::do_Select(this = 0x10cba0, rid = 0xfe7fbd90 "1022", refresh = 0), line 1287 in "XrdOlbServer.cc" [4] XrdOlbServer::Process_Director(this = 0x10cba0), line 228 in "XrdOlbServer.cc" [5] XrdOlbManager::Login(this = 0x9b878, lnkp = 0xc02f0), line 312 in "XrdOlbManager.cc" [6] XrdOlbLoginServer(carg = 0xc02f0), line 102 in "XrdOlbMain.cc" [7] XrdOucThread_Xeq(myargs = 0xa0058), line 80 in "XrdOucPthread.cc" (dbx) Cheers, Wilko