On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 09:03 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Yep, that sucks. Now what what does bonnie++ say? > I'll have to wait until tonight to run that. Too disruptive during the day. I tried to run that the other day and got an immediate call from the client that the system had "locked up". It was actually just extremely slow. I thought that, as of 2.6, writes weren't suppose to starve reads anymore. But they definitely do with the current CentOS kernel at least. -Steve