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As I recall, Mike Smith wrote:
> It's a reasonable assumption; it sounds like you haven't tuned the 
> FreeBSD box very well, so it's doing a lot of disk I/O.

I seem to recall that Linux does async disk writes out of the box.

	-crl
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