--On Monday, September 26, 2011 03:13:09 PM -0700 Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, these aren't ancient 686 systems, > they are 1-ish year old 8-core Intel Xeons with 32 GB of ECC RAM apiece. > I can't justify replacing them, especially since two of the four are > happily deliverying gorgeous performance! No doubt. My comment about replacing it was just a statement about what happened in my case (since fighting with old hardware is not exactly a valuable use of my time). It wasn't a suggestion. The post itself was not much more than "you're not the only person seeing something wonky". Mine is unfortunately lacking in hard data. Devin