On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 14:29 -0400, chrism at imntv.com wrote: > > What exactly are you doing that's causing this condition? I've got a > 4-core opteron box that I've just installed 4.4 + updates on and would > like to see if I can duplicate the problem. bonnie++ -f Actually, I'm switching to /home/steve and, as root: bonnie++ -f -u steve It's a 4GB machine, so bonnie runs with an 8GB dataset. I'm installing 4.4 on my desktop box now for testing without raid or lvm. I have an FC5 box at the office which does not exhibit the problem with the 2.6.17 kernel using raid1+lvm2. But the raid is currently running in degraded mode. I'll be syncing up the other drive tonight and will test again. -Steve