I'm curious how the community updates their NCBI databases each day or if you do it weekly. Here, we have an rsync script that updates from NCBI then "pushes" to all of our nodes. We recently received a new cluster with dual gigabit and channel bonding. When this script runs, the load level on all "pushed" nodes increases to a point where the node is completely unresponsive. With top, I've seen loads as high as 9.56 when that node is rsyncing. Yesterday, I experimented with different ethernet drivers, tg3 and bcm5700. From my experiments, the bcm5700 driver is a tick faster and the load level drops to about an average of 2 during the push. I still see segments that go up to 4 for a few minutes, then drop to 2. My questions are: Is rsync the way to push to all nodes? If not, what other alternatives exist? Does everybody else see the load level increase when pushing to all nodes? -- Jeremy Mann jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672