On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:44:09AM -0800, Brian Stark wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the proper forum, but it seems like a good place > to start. I am maintaining a linux cluster of servers (to date around > 350). They have a partition configured as a RAID, the average performance > on these servers is very good , but occasionally I will see a server go > away for 30-40 seconds. After researching it in the code I found that the > culprit was a "write" function call. When the call eventually completes, > but I am writing under 100K of data so I have no idea why it would take > that long to complete. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior? If not Which IO scheduler are you using? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>