I saw something really similar while moving some very large (300MB to 4GB) files. I was really surprised to see actual disk I/O (as measured by dstat) be really horrible. -- Jon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html