Well, if you have any spare space, it would be interesting to see if XFS would help. BTW, chrism, I replied to you regarding XFS when I meant to reply to Bowie. How *could* I be so impolitic to even *hint* that you use XFS. Oh, the humanity! Bowie Bailey wrote: > Kirk Bocek wrote: >> chrism at imntv.com wrote: >>> I'm doing this from memory as the machine is at another location >>> now. I think I did this: >>> >>> turned off ncq (per Josh's suggestion) >>> turned on write caching (it's on an oversized ups and the data >>> isn't critical) set storsave to "performance" >>> changed the memory interleave (thanks to kirk's suggestion). It >>> was off by default. used parted to create gpt disklabel >>> set noatime and one other option that was suggested here for the >>> RAID partition used mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/blah >>> >>> That was it. >> Okay, now try installing kernel-module-xfs and xfsutils (located in >> the centosplus repository), run mkfs.xfs on some unused space, mount >> and re-run bonnie++. > > I'm sure that would be faster, but I'm sticking to ext3 for now. >