All: Did anyone ever track this down? I'm assuming the consensus is that the kernel is SIGTERM'ing the process when it exceeds login_class(3) restrictions in login.conf(5) Obviously, other reports have eliminated the usual sources of signals as a cause. As for the root cause, are we talking about a memory leek introduced in a recent version or something less insidious, such as threading/process concurrency defaults that exceed defaults for non-root users? I'm still seeing documented behavior on freeradius-2.1.8 on FreeBSD/amd64 RELENG_8_0, but not RELENG_6_3. The only thing that I can see that has changed is the max open file limits 6.3: open files (-n) 11095 8: open files (-n) 3520 I guess maybe lsof(8) or fstat(8) to try to track down possibly a file descriptor problem? Ahhh, Monday. ~BAS