Hi On Tue 23-May-2006 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Ben wrote: > my raid-5 is hardware and pretends to be a scsi device. If it's a 3ware RAID card this could well be the bottle neck -- from my experience they tend to have very high iowait and get really slow when there is a lot of data being moved about... Chris -- Chris Croome <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/