On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:38:51AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or
> > the customer) knows and can administer competently.
>
> I'll have to 2nd this.
I'll 3rd but add one tidbit: FreeBSD will schedule disk I/O based on
process priority, while linux won't. This can be very handy for things
like vacuum.
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