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David, > btw Russ, > So far it seems that 5.1.2 is *much* more efficient > with disk io. iowait and diskwaits are much shorter now > than they have been in the past on our ldm machine. > Thanks Glad to hear it, thanks for the feedback. So far only about 36% of our LDM sites have converted to 5.1.2, and very few have provided any comments on any differences they have noticed. I'm trying to put together a couple of graphs for the PolComm meeting on the data rate in products per second with 5.0 versus 5.1, depending on the number of products in the queue. This one summarizes things: Table 1. Measured rates of typical product insertion in a full product queue Products Products/sec, Products/sec, in Queue LDM 5.0 LDM 5.1 20000 130 300 40000 66 243 80000 40 230 160000 20 210 --Russ