Hi, I found a post from Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dated 2000, Jan 01 (Thank you Russell) where he recommends: a "reasonable [conf-split] size given the performance of the file system on the available hardware. That is, in my experience, about 3,000 for ext2 fs." I have been having large queue performance issues on Linux I think are related to the conf-split. I have changed my conf-split to 2999 (on a single IDE disk, single proc pent II 350) but have not had a queue spike yet. When I was investigating this problem I came to the conclusion that I should change the conf-split, but I completely missed the guess on what a large jump I should make. I originally moved it to 83. I also run Solaris 7.0 (SPARC) and FreeBSD 3.4 (Intel), are there maximum conf-split recommendations for single proc, single IDE disk systems with UFS and FFS? -- Tony Hansmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Director of Technical Services Quepasa.com, INC. 602-716-0100