> If you do a dd to the storage from the heads do > you still get the same issues?
no, local read/writes are great, they never choke. It's whenever NFS or iSCSI are involved and that the read/writes are done from a remote box that we experience the problem. Local operations barely affects the CPU load. Ian -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss