Running on Redhat 5.1 if I do, dd bs=1024 count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null I get around 30Gb/sec However, when I do this with 2.6.37 I get close to 5GB/sec Is there anything new in the kernel? TIA _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies