Hi. The process generated for postmaster become zombies, when the process are more than 30!!! then: kill -1 <PID-POSTMASTER> therefore: the process restore Note: The postmaster is initialized with: postmaster -i -B 256 -o -S & The system is: PENTIUM ii 233Mhz, 192MB RAM The transactions have been in PHP3 + APACHE Please, help me!!! ************