Hi All, Using Debian stable 2.4.27 with Samba 3.0.24 Currently experiencing a problem where I am trying to back up a mailstore, which is in Maildir format. This has been working fine up until about 2 weeks ago. The mailstore is 88GB in total, which is 150,000+ individual mail files. The drive is 97% full. The server is also running exim-4 and dovecot, which appear to run fine. Below is an example from top of the smbd process; 32366 mailuser 18 0 4376 4372 3288 R 98 0.5 11:07.25 smbd Am I right in thinking this slow down is being caused by the drive filling up? does this have any proof of reasoning from samba's point of view? Help appreciated, Regards Mark