On Jul 3, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote: > I had this setup with ext3 before and I had severe problems with > extreme > load through high iowait and the system hangs for up to 20 seconds > while > the filesystem flushed unwritten data to disk. > This was on a SCSI hardware RAID 5. Which IO scheduler were you using? :wes