> Well, you got what you asked for. There's lots of info on the > centos.org web site, including info about the standard vs. plus > repositories. You need to make an informed decision there, which it > looks like you're moving towards, so keep going. > Interestingly, as a project for work I've been benchmarking different kernels against our configuration, using iozone. The latest redhat/centos 5.3 kernel against stock 2.6.27.8 (as close to the centos config as is feasible.) I have some pretty graphs, but the long and short of it is, while the read times are comparable, the write times for the stock kernel.org kernel are over twice as fast. I mean it's pretty much blowing the RHEL/CentOS kernel out of the water. --Russell