On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 at 9:00pm, Sean O Sullivan wrote > System : > CentOS 4.2 > 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp > System fully up-to-date. > 3GB RAM > 3ware 9000S card, with Raid5 array. > > I think that's about all relevant info ... > > Had file on disk (not array), attempted to mv file to array. > Went fine till 2.4GB was copied, then it slowed down to a meg every few > minutes. > Free memory was ~50MB (Typically is 1.5-2GB), and cache was 2.5GB. I'm guessing this was your problem (workarounds suggested in the bug): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156437 'mount -o noreservation' the FS and try it again. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University