on 07/10/2010 20:31 John Hay said the following: > Oct 7 17:11:49 thumper1 kernel: mvsch23: EMPTY CRPB 30 (->0) 0 4000 Can you rule out hardware (or driver-level) problems? E.g. by dd-ing to/from disk directly. Doing that in parallel on the same and/or different disks. Running any disk I/O benchmarks. -- Andriy Gapon