Andre Noll wrote: > Thanks, this helped a lot. However, there does not seem to be a way > to make the system more responsive, which is really the problem we > are experiencing. > > Andre > This is not 3ware-specific, but kernel 2.6.24 has new per-device write throttling that might help with the responsiveness issue: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges#head-92340ffcec39e7c2a09fd933243fb18eda57f1b4 http://lwn.net/Articles/245600/ Also, check to see if the 3ware controller has a background initialize or verify in progress, since that will obviously slow things down until it is complete. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html