>>>The SAN we have does not have average IO size. I know for >>>sure 2.6 is way better on large IOs, I just dont know wether >>>I can fully thrust iostat. What's your observeation with RH4 >>>and the 2.6 kernel ? It passed through 512KB. That is what I've seen ... and that is "good" You can trust iostat -x if you don't "snack" on the data...do something like iostat -x 30 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l