Timings on a HA Sun Cluster (Solaris 2.9; sun4u sparc; Sun-Fire-V440): 0 fsync 9.1 seconds, 1097 txn/sec 1 fsync 182.8 seconds, 55 txn/sec 2 fsync 324 seconds, 31 txn/sec Solaris still cannot handle "fsync" efficiently :-( -- Dieter