--- "Freeman, Donald" <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We're using Redhat Enterprise Version 3. Don't know > why that one was > picked. > Don't know if it helps any, but there is a comparsion for web serving here: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/ They compare 2.4 v 2.6. Anyway, conclusions for all to see. See if you can find out the kernel version. If 2.4 I'd highly recommend going 2.6 (uname -a would get you that info). Dare I say it, but maybe Windows does have better IO performance then Linux. I'm not a linux nor a windows bigot. Whatever works best, I use. -- mohammed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l