Dale, In that case, the only thing I can think of is that your system is quite loaded and data-products are arriving too quickly to be processed immediately. You might investigate using iostat(1) and top(1). > Thanks for your prompt reply. > > Your answers are here: > > 1. Files are written with FILE -close. > 2. To see the delay we're simply looking at directory and file listings. We > do get lots of log messages in /var/log/messages. > 3. Both boxes see their disks as local. One of them is truly local (the > archive box). The other is a a virtual machine and it has mounted as virtual > drive locally. > > Both systems run Scientific Linux 5. > > Thanks, > > Dale Morris Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: LTV-934218 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed