[clug] Q: Linux process accounting?

[Sam Couter]

Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> Do any of the OSS operating systems provide IO accounting? The  
> machine is a mail server after all, so monitoring IO (especially disk  
> I/O) is going to be essential to performance tuning. I've heard/read  
> that some people find Free/OpenBSD idea for mail or database servers  
> due to their handling of disk I/O - does this sound right?

Linux has in the past been widely acknowleged as the fastest database
and mail server because of its fast asynchronous I/O, but I don't know
if that view is still valid with modern BSDs. These days they are also
capable of fast asynchronous I/O and their log-based filesystems have
the jump on any Linux filesystem as far as write performance goes.
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