After cursing over this for I don't know how long, its was recently brought to my attention that the C search.cgi that comes with UDMsearch just might not be up to snuff, compared to some of the other interfaces ... After some investigation, we've installed a mod_perl front-end to the database that, with ~10million rows of data and 95k documents loaded, appears to be highly responsive ... We've just finished loading up the complete web site, and welcome feedback on this, including sample searches that ppl feel are taking too long, so that I can test it from here ... and from what page you've tested it ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org