You just grabbed the latest kernel from kernel.org? Does hdparm show you as having DMA enabled? I turned off and stopped the cpuspeed service. Thanks Chris >>> geisj at pagestation.com 01/12/06 3:02 pm >>> Chris, I have a Compaq AMD r4000 x86_64. grabbing the latest kernel and compiling it fixed my clock skew. I have not had any slow disk issues. again the kernel may help doing the command: killall - SIGUSR1 cpuspeed makes the CPU run faster. Hope that helps. Jerry -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.