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At 12:50 PM 12/15/2008, Paul MacKenzie wrote:

>I have Polling, Quota, and the Lagg system enabled on both of the
>systems and have tried to make them as similar as possible in the setup.

I would also try disabling polling.  Is you scheduler ULE or BSD? For 
an 8 core box, it should be ULE

         ---Mike