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You should look for what the bottleneck is: memory? processor number and speed? network? disk I/O? For example RAID5 is slower than RAID 1 or 10, it has a write penalty of 4:1. SCSI disks are faster than IDE, SATA should be faster than PATA, and so on. -- LDS