Try writing to a different type of filesystem. It might be the filesystem's fault. MacTCP on the Classic Mac OS got a real bad rap because FTP writes were very slow, but it was easy to show that the problem was in the Heirarchical Filesystem. Is your destination filesystem journaled? Maybe flushing the journal is causing your hit. -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines