Hello, Here is a little background of my setup. mdadm->lvm->dmcrypt->btrfs. I had the btrfs in ext4 but I converted it. When I first did the convert, everything was fine. After a moment, I did a btrfs balance and since that day, the writing speed is very slow. When I do things like unzip/unrar, the load average flies to 15+. That makes the system to be almost unusable. During the whole process I went from 3.2 wheezy to 3.5. I went to back to 3.2 to check the stability, the results are the same. I was asking myself if simply changing the chunk would solve my problem? Thanks William -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html