I installed FC3 the other day and found some really cool new features and the like but discovered a few bugs as well. I found HD performance is slow compared to FC2. I ran some copy tests between multiple disks (I have 3 fairly new ATA 133 drives and a brand new DVD burner) and I noticed that the processor usage skyrocketed (50%+ on a normal copy) and while burning to DVD is fine reading from it is severly slow. I have checked hdparm and everything seems ok yet even though my machine is relativley new (3ghz, 2gb ram etc) it seems to really struggle with disk speed. I am also running the SMP kernel with hyperthreading turned on whereas in FC2 I was running the normal kernel without hyperthreading, could that have something to do with the problem. Has anyone got the same problem and or a solution. It would be most appreciated. cheers, Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia 612 9795 0000 http://www.torchpublishing.com.au