Kirk Bocek wrote: > I finally figured out my slowdown problem: I had somehow turned off > write-caching on the 3Ware controller. Hoo-Boy! Does that kill > throughput! What the heck is that option for anyway? Err... are you sure you want to turn on write-caching? You will have filesystem corruption in case of a power-down, panic or other crashes then. It does help to have a battery backup on the 3ware card, assuming it is smart enough to write the changes to disk before the OS starts. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.