Dan Armbrust wrote: > Do the other processes do much disk IO? Maybe it's your disk that > can't keep up. Nice doesn't have much effect when a process uses up > all the disk IO. > > If you have multiple disks, you could try moving files around such > that the files being served by smb are on a different disk that the > others (and also a different disk than the system install) > > Dan Yes, the other processes are doing almost nothing but disk IO. The samba processes are serving data from a separate RAID group, and separate bunch of disks. The Apache processes are serving data and munging data on the OS RAID group. These RAID groups do share a common controller, but they are on different channels. Disk setup on server: RAID group 0 (2) 36G U320 7200k SCSI disks in RAID 1 configuration contains system OS RAID group 1 (6) 300G U320 10k SCSI disks in RAID 5 configuration contains audio files only -- I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. - Mitch Hedberg