Hi Lester

> Dual core AMD64 - Mandriva 2008.0 - FB2.0.3 - FlameRobin 0.8.1
> Setup as installed by Mandriva by default - classic build

Maybe the operation is more I/O bound? Which disk system are you using? Can you
do some I/O performance tests? Sometimes brand-new RAID Controllers aren't
supported optimally by the Linux Kernel.

Michael