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. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend