<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wup, meant to say random read test, not readwrite. Though I'm also seeing fairly high 3-4 loadavgs during the straight read and write tests as well.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Robert Olson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">PS<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>- interesting; readwrite test running now, driving the load avg <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">on the MDT/OST node up to over 5. guessing a number of OST threads <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">waiting on<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>disk..</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>