On RH 4 I have a fiber multipath connection to an emc san. If I do a stress test of i/o to the san - an 8G cp from the san to the internal drive and visa versa - I see halts of simple montoring programs . The monitoring pgm writes the date/time to a file and sleeps. 30 seconds after cron starts the stress test the monitor script will halt for 20 seconds, then continue. RH support suggests this is a tuning issue. There is not a lot of docs on 4.8 tuning parms, is there any comments or suggestions where I need to start JYard UCLA -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list