> Thank you for sharing information about you setup. Is the application > you are using, something that we can easily setup and use for > generating more diagnostics inhouse at Gluster ? I suppose. It's Horde, a PHP-based groupware suite. I've got two Apache nodes load-balanced using glusterfs as their php sessions store plus shared data (temp files, misc app data) with the sessions store being the hard-hit service. When I crank up the incoming user rate, (causing new sessions to be created and then read), things get wonky as explained before. John -- John Madden Sr UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden at ivytech.edu