On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 13:48, Florian Schmidt wrote: > Hmm, in my case the maximum value i can use is 128, and i cannot see a > difference between 128 and 16 either. It didn't do harm. Maybe it vastly depends on the workload? You know, like writing a tiny 44.1/16/2 audio stream to disk versus writing a huge raw video stream (or a large database workload). What was your disk workload? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/