now many dosbuffers have you set for every SFS partitions?
Average suggested is 1000 dosbubbers every GB of partitions. I know sounds a lot but hey ... SFS requires it :-)
ah .. and to be sure that the dosbuffers are enough, run SFSQuery (after you have used the partition for some minutes) and look at how many caches have you missed
5/0.AOS4:C> SFSquery cdh6:
SFSquery information for cdh6: (SFS Version 1.279)
Start/end-offset : 0x00000000:2B0F3400 - 0x00000000:3FB79000 bytes
Device API : (standard)
Bytes/block : 512 Total blocks : 676.910
Cache accesses : 78.784 Cache misses : 706 (0%)
Read-ahead cache : 4 x 1.024 bytes (Copyback)
Flush timeout : act. 20s, inact. 0.5s
Max Name Length : 107
DOS buffers : 1.000
SFS settings : [RECYCLED, 350 entries]