Seemingly odd disc i/o behaviour, need help to diagnose

[Chuck Swiger]

Hello--

Oren Baum wrote:
[ ... ]
> Configuration:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
> apache+mod_ssl-1.3.22+2.8.5_1
> mysql-server-3.23.42
> Hard Drive (dual ATA disks, no RAID) on a Dell P4 PowerEDGE server

Your software is several years out of date, and there are important security 
holes in at least FreeBSD and apache which have since been fixed.  You ought 
to upgrade to recent versions and retest the system to see whether your 
problems get solved as a result...

-- 
-Chuck