-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The back-out of the last set of changes to gmirror don't seem to have solved the problem .. I get .. imb@aaron:/home/imb> iostat 5 ~ tty da0 da1 pass0 cpu ~ tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id ~ 1 130 0.23 1 0.00 99.48 220 21.35 0.02 0 0.00 27 0 14 1 58 ~ 0 46 0.00 0 0.00 125.41 686 84.07 0.00 0 0.00 2 0 6 2 90 ~ 0 16 0.00 0 0.00 127.93 708 88.42 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 6 4 89 ~ 0 16 0.00 0 0.00 127.86 709 88.55 0.00 0 0.00 5 0 5 3 87 ~ 0 16 0.00 0 0.00 127.97 710 88.70 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 9 4 86 ~ 0 16 0.00 0 0.00 127.96 707 88.35 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 7 4 88 ~ 0 16 0.00 0 0.00 127.60 705 87.83 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 6 2 91 ^C imb@aaron:/home/imb> sudo gmirror deactivate gm0s2 da0s2 imb@aaron:/home/imb> iostat 5 ~ tty da0 da1 pass0 cpu ~ tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id ~ 1 104 0.24 1 0.00 113.45 336 37.18 0.02 0 0.00 21 0 12 2 65 ~ 0 46 0.00 0 0.00 127.28 710 88.24 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 6 3 90 ^C I'm going to try going further back to see where it started .. Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFAe8YQv9rrgRC1JIRAudfAJ0ZC53LQkYpqqiW4UCnWfj+WO5MmwCeJmHB ebjsc6OrPuQBG3nER25jBt0=I0qd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----