> Here, the %wio is very high which indicates a disk bottleneck. WHAT's "very high"? "0"? Using a fixed-width font may help to clarify which numbers lie under which heading. 16:09:31 %usr %sys %wio %idle 16:09:33 4 0 0 96 16:09:35 44 0 0 56 > 64 bytes from 1921.68.0.4: icmp_seq=2. time=1028. ms I know nothing, but this looks to me like a network problem. (And to me, it would look that way even if the "%idle" values were lower than "96" and "56".) > I am an HP Employee That's scary. > yes you are right, [...] Perhaps I'm the one who's thoroughly lost.