and here is the global iostat info after 3 days of uptime. notice how the hde drive has await and svctm values that are 10x of hda. is iostat bogus and just leading me down a wild goose chase? Linux 2.4.18-18.7.x.spirebigmem (atlas.spiretech.com) 12/10/2002 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %idle 2.96 0.01 2.21 94.82 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util hde 29.13 16.34 8.04 29.97 296.93 373.03 17.63 0.04 4.24 3.05 1.16 hde1 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.00 55.79 0.00 1106.35 509.88 0.02 hde2 4.32 4.86 2.10 16.94 51.30 175.10 11.89 0.18 9.11 6.84 1.30 hde3 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.04 0.07 19.02 0.02 3027.18 2023.47 0.12 hde5 24.73 11.48 5.94 13.02 245.42 197.86 23.38 0.10 12.50 11.55 2.19 hda 32.67 15.74 8.53 30.66 329.11 373.03 17.92 0.08 6.69 4.26 1.67 hda1 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.00 59.04 0.00 135.04 68.32 0.00 hda2 4.98 4.64 2.31 17.17 58.34 175.10 11.98 0.12 19.81 6.10 1.19 hda3 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.07 19.44 0.00 210.14 147.84 0.01 hda5 27.60 11.09 6.22 13.49 270.56 197.86 23.78 0.22 7.38 2.45 0.48 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html