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From: ntm1169@dsacg1.UUCP (Mott Given)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: UNIX accounting for I/O
Keywords: UNIX, accounting, I/O
Message-ID: <630@dsacg1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 13:37:58 GMT
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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     I would like to know why the number of I/O's, as shown by "BLOCKS R/W"
     in the BSD 4.3 accounting statistics, increases as the system workload
     increases.   I do not understand very much about UNIX internals, and
     in other operating systems such as MVS one does not see the same
     phenomenon.


Mott Given @ Defense Logistics Agency ,DSAC-TMP, Bldg. 27-1, P.O. Box 1605,
	    Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH 43216-5002
UUCP:  mgiven%dsacg1.uucp@daitc.arpa              I speak for myself
Phone:       614-238-9431     AUTOVON: 850-9431
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Mott Given @ Defense Logistics Agency ,DSAC-TMP, Bldg. 27-1, P.O. Box 1605,
	    Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH 43216-5002
UUCP:  mgiven%dsacg1.uucp@daitc.arpa              I speak for myself
Phone:       614-238-9431     AUTOVON: 850-9431