Has this issue been addressed? When I delete something large..say a mozilla cvs tree, rm will stall for about 10-30 seconds every few minutes in wait_on_buffer. It's an IDE drive, nothing fancy on the system, it's a standard pII w/ 256 megs, about 50megs free. 'sync' also stalls similarly. Ideas? -d -- ..NOTICE fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/