At 12:59 -0400 2/10/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >Try running the same benchmark but use bs=4k and count=1048576 Just finished doing that now - comparison graphs are here: http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=7492 >While these tests are running can you run any processes on another >session? Yes, but responsiveness is sluggish eg (taken during 4k 'deadline' scheduler test) # time ls /usr/lib real 0m15.959s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.016s S.