Ah, I also tried unlocking the file descriptor 1024 limit, which worked fine most of the time, but didn't actually give me a perf boost in any of my tests. I go

Ah, I also tried unlocking the file descriptor 1024 limit, which worked fine most of the time, but didn't actually give me a perf boost in any of my tests. I got rid of it in the end because it caused problems when copying from an smb mount. iirc I exhausted the file descriptor limit on the samba server.