On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:14:41PM +0930, Eric Lam wrote: > all dumpfiles total about 17Gb. It has been running for 50ish hrs and up > to about the fourth file (5-6 ish Gb) and this is on a raid 5 server. RAID5 generally doesn't bode too well for performance; that could be part of the issue. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461