Arnau, On 1/24/06 10:40 AM, "Arnau Rebassa Villalonga" <arebassa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know it's a problem with a very big scope, but could you give me a > hint about where I should look to? Try this: time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=2000000 && sync" time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k And report the results back here. If it takes too long to complete (more than a couple of minutes), bring up another window and run "vmstat 1" then report the values in the columns "bi" and "bo". - Luke
