diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d5d66ff2..286ec22f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Anything we add/remove/fix/change is in here (even our rants)
 Fish (F), Mark (M), DeadNotBuried (D)
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 * NeoStats * Version 3.0.a3-dev
+ - Remove GDBM locking to try and fix problems on BSD. (M)
  - Remove RTA support. (M)
  - Add Umask function so our config files are not world/group readable, and
    update htmlstats in statserv to change the permissions after writting out
diff --git a/src/dbm/gdbm.c b/src/dbm/gdbm.c
index 7f7b7156..8b50efe1 100755
--- a/src/dbm/gdbm.c
+++ b/src/dbm/gdbm.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void *DBMOpenTable( const char *name )
 
 	dlog( DEBUG4, "DBMOpenTable" );
 	ircsprintf( filename, "%s.gdbm", name );
-	gdbm_file = gdbm_open( filename, 0, GDBM_WRCREAT, 00664, NULL );
+	gdbm_file = gdbm_open( filename, 0, GDBM_WRCREAT | GDBM_NOLOCK, 00664, NULL );
 	if( gdbm_file == NULL )
 	{
 		dlog( DEBUG1, "gdbm_open fail: %s", gdbm_strerror( gdbm_errno ) );