Anyone taken the plunge and upgraded to 1.3?

Just checking to see if anyone has upgraded to Xsan 1.3 and what their experiences have been.
Im currently running a new installation of 1.2 without without any problems and am considering upgrading.

I have run into major performance issues with upgrading to xsan 1.3 + os 10.4.6.
we have 8 xservs re-sharing the san volume, three raids and another two xserve acting as mdc, the meta data network is segregated gigabit and out main network is gigabit.
our primary application is asr / netrestore, before doing both upgrades we could burn our biggest image on to a mac book pro in about 40~50 minutes now it take over 4 hours. on the same network, same dns, same app but using a xserve with directly attached storage os 10.4.4 a mac book pro will burn in 31 minutes. no other equipment was burning during testing.
two things that i have noticed, the first and most pertaining was the kernel task on the updated machines was taking 90~100% of one proc (dual proc xserves) where in the past this should be about 17%.
the other issue is related to large amounts of "inactive" memory. this issue seems to be related to afp sharing of large files i have xserves with 8 gigs of memory and 7 gigs will be inactive (meaning that it was in use but the os is still holding onto it just incase) freshly restart a server the first burn screams. you can also watch activity monitor and see the memory getting used. then it runs out of memory and it starts paging for other applications.
my next task it to roll back the xsan 1.3 updates to figure out if it is xsan or the os update.

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