On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> > I see constant disk activity when using daemontools to
> > monitor qmail.
> 
> I don't.
> 
> Get yourself a real operating system where the disk cache actually
> works.  svscan does read-only accesses to /services or wherever you
> configured it to look.  If that touches your disk each time, your OS
> sucks or you have way too little RAM in your machine.

Not necessarily.  I had constant disk activity[1] and after digging thru
the logs of the various services I found an unable to bind problem with
one of the services.  I had missed an alias in my startup scripts - had
nothing to do with ram or a bad os.

> I suggest Linux.

I don't.

Vince.

[1] a cycling of disk activity to be more precise.
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